Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates - Hardcover

Leigh Fermor, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719542642 ISBN 13: 9780719542640

Publisher: John Murray, 1986

Synopsis

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania.

The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showing signs of the holocaust which was to come. Although frequently praised for his lyrical writing, Fermor's account also provides a coherent understanding of the dramatic events then unfolding in Middle Europe. But the delight remains in travelling with him in his picaresque journey past remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges.

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Review:

Beyond cavil the greatest of living travel writers...in this work he is exploring the very furthest boundaries of the genre (Jan Morris, The Times)

Book Description:

'Between the Woods and the Water' continues Patrick Leigh Fermor's celebrated epic account of his journey at the age of eighteen, in 1933, from the Hook of Holand to Constantinople. Here he travels down the Danube from Budapest, across the Great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0719542642
• ISBN 13: 9780719542640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248