Between the Woods And the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland; the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates - Softcover

Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014009430X ISBN 13: 9780140094305

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

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Review:

The most enjoyable living writer to be published this year (Peter Levi, The Spectator)

As full of zest, joy and delight as its predecessor (Country Life)

I hae never enjoyed a travel book more and I would doubt if I will ever enjoy one so much again (Robin Lane Fox)

'Between the Woods and the Water' is a book so good your resent finishing it. (Sunday Times)

"The finest travelling companion we could ever have... His head is stocked with cultural lore and poetic fancy to make every league an adventure." Christopher Hudson (Evening Standard)

" [I]n this work he is exploring the very furthest boundaries of the genre." Jan Morris. (The Times)

Book Description:

This text continues Patrick Leigh Fermor's epic account of his journey aged 18 in 1933, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Here, he travels down the Danube from Budapest, across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 014009430X
• ISBN 13: 9780140094305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256