BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER by Patrick Leigh Fermor ( 9780719566967 )

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Title:

BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER
ON FOOT TO CONSTANTINOPLE FROM THE HOOK OF HOLLAND - THE MIDDLE DANUBE TO THE IRON GATES

By:

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0719566967

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9780719566967

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Publisher:

HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION

Pub. date:

8 April, 2004

Pages:

256

Description:

The second great Patrick Leigh Fermor classic - and the sequel to A Time of Gifts - in John Murray B-format for the first time.

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.Although Between the Woods and the Water was published nine years after A Time of Gifts, Fermor is famously still at work on the concluding part of his trilogy.

Illustrations:

frontispiece and map

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Imprint:

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Prizes:

Winner of Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 1987

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

A TIME OF GIFTS

A TIME OF GIFTS (AUD)