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Between the Woods & The Water
  • ISBN: 9780719566967
  • Pages: 256
  • Publisher: John Murray
  • Binding: Paperback

Between the Woods & The Water

On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

Patrick Leigh Fermor
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The acclaimed travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor’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.

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 organizing resistance activities. He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 New Year Honours List. He died in June 2011, at the age of 96.

‘A book so good you'll resent finishing it. ’ Sunday Times

‘As full of zest, joy and delight as its predecessor.’ Country Life



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