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by Michael Riccioli
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long magical death epic Athos monastery and Sea

The Broken Road
From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Murray 2013

The - awaited final volume of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travelogue takes him though Rumania Bulgaria , along the Black coast to Istanbul , and on to the Greek island of Mount . Still unfinished at his in 2011 , it has been sensitively completed , using extracts from his 'Green Diary' , by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper , and does not disappoint : Fermor's powers of evocation are as as ever .