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Tag Archives: William Dalrymple

Walking into history: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts

As a reader some books are inevitable. Recently I finally got around to reading one that had nagged at me for years. As I plunged in it felt like meeting an old friend.

October 8, 2013 in Art, Books, Landscape.

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