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The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Was it worth the wait? Maybe. In the weeks before his death in 2011, PLF was still working on the draft of the third and last volume of his trilogy describing his epic journey from London to Constantinople in 1932 (bwl 33). It doesn't have the magic or the charm of the earlier two, nor disappointingly does he write about arriving at his destination. Instead, the last third of the book is devoted to an uneventful excursion to Mount Athos.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 87 Winter 2018 )