The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A
Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two
volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick
Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to
Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from
his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The
curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last
part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished
but The Broken Road - edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis
Cooper - completes an extraordinary journey.