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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.
| ISBN | 0719566967 | | Pages | 304 | | ISBN13 | 9780719566967
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 180 | | Publisher | John Murray General Publishing Division | | Published in | London | | Imprint | John Murray Publishers Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780719555251 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 17 | | Publication date | 08 Apr 2004 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | DEWEY | 914.0452 | | Spine width (mm) | 197 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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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 As full of zest, joy and delight as its predecessor -- Country Life He is exploring the very furthest boundaries of the genre. -- Jan Morris, The Times The most enjoyable living writer to be published this year -- Peter Levi, The Spectator I have never enjoyed a travel book more and I would doubt if I will ever enjoy one so much again -- Robin Lane Fox Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language -- Independent Bringing 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 Magazine John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world? -- Geographical Magazine 'For a spirited introduction [to the Balkans] try Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of a 1930s walk from Hungary to Romania and Bulgaria...rich in local history and a formative book in the rise of modern travel writing' - David Mattin -- The Times One of the most enjoyable reads in English literature and among the five best travel books ever written. - Jack Benson Write a review
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