Between the Woods and the Water
On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
$21.75
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2004
Summary
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 s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719566967 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719566967 |
| Author: | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
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 StandardAs full of zest, joy and delight as its predecessor - Country LifeHe is exploring the very furthest boundaries of the genre. - Jan Morris, The TimesThe most enjoyable living writer to be published this year - Peter Levi, The SpectatorI have never enjoyed a travel book more and I would doubt if I will ever enjoy one so much again - Robin Lane FoxRightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language - IndependentBringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples … to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better - Geographical MagazineAbout The Author
Patrick Leigh Fermor
After his walk across Europe, Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete - living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 New Year Honours List. He died in 2011.
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