''The Broken Road'' (2013) is a travel book by British author

Patrick Leigh Fermor Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greates ...

. Published posthumously by John Murray, the book, edited and introduced by his biographer

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and travel writer

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, narrates almost all of the final section of the author's journey on foot across Europe from the

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Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

in 1933 and '34. The first book, ''

A Time of Gifts ''A Time of Gifts'' (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the first part of Fermor's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constanti ...

'' (1977), narrates Leigh Fermor's journey as far as the

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. The second volume, ''

Between the Woods and the Water ''Between the Woods and the Water'' is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor, the second in a series of three books narrating the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34. The fi ...

'' (1986), begins with the author crossing the Mária Valéria bridge from Czechoslovakia into Hungary and ends when he reaches the Iron Gate, where the Danube formed the boundary between the

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and Romania. He never published the third volume, but in 2011 Leigh Fermor's publisher, John Murray announced that it would publish the final volume, drawing from his diary at the time and an early draft that he wrote in the 1960s, subsequently releasing it in September 2013. The cover design is by Ed Kluz;

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who designed the other volumes, had died in 2009."The story of a cover: The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor"
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