The difficulty is there's not very much. But those two (the walk to Constantinople) have been reprinted in unattractive but widely-distributed paperbacks and recently.
If you are inclined to firsts, Fermor is still alive therefore still affordable. The firsts are more attractive than any of the reprints thus far. The Mani and Roumeli firsts include photos by Joan which later reviewers have complained were left out of later editions.
So, go forth and seek and read:
A Time for Gifts (you will then want to reread Woods and Water)
Mani
Roumeli (You'll love these too.)
Words of Mercury
Then round up any of the small stuff you can find.
I have The Traveller's Tree, but I am an inveterate author-rationer and have been saving it. So I cannot speak firsthand for it. But Fermor is excellence personified. Note that Time to Keep Silence is about Mt Athos, not a follow-on to the Constantinople stories as such.
He has not completed the third volume, so we don't know what happened on the last half of the journey... after his wife died he had a hard time, I think.
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The difficulty is there's not very much. But those two (the walk to Constantinople) have been reprinted in unattractive but widely-distributed paperbacks and recently.
If you are inclined to firsts, Fermor is still alive therefore still affordable. The firsts are more attractive than any of the reprints thus far. The Mani and Roumeli firsts include photos by Joan which later reviewers have complained were left out of later editions.
So, go forth and seek and read:
A Time for Gifts (you will then want to reread Woods and Water)
Mani
Roumeli (You'll love these too.)
Words of Mercury
Then round up any of the small stuff you can find.
I have The Traveller's Tree, but I am an inveterate author-rationer and have been saving it. So I cannot speak firsthand for it. But Fermor is excellence personified. Note that Time to Keep Silence is about Mt Athos, not a follow-on to the Constantinople stories as such.
He has not completed the third volume, so we don't know what happened on the last half of the journey... after his wife died he had a hard time, I think.