Between the woods and the water

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Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor writes about walking from Hungary to the Balkans.

The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933—to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day—proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume. Undertaken as the storms of war gathered, and providing a background for the events that were beginning to unfold in Central Europe, Leigh Fermor’s still-unfinished account of his journey has established itself as a modern classic. Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of a projected three, has garnered as many prizes as its celebrated predecessor, A Time of Gifts.

The opening of the book finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube—at the very moment where his first volume left off. A detour to the luminous splendors of Prague is followed by a trip downriver to Budapest, passage on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and a crossing of the Romanian border into Transylvania. Remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges that are the haunt of bears, wolves, eagles, gypsies, and a variety of sects are all savored in the approach to the Iron Gates, the division between the Carpathian mountains and the Balkans, where, for now, the story ends.

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Between The Woods & The Water

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The second great patrick leigh fermor classic and the sequel to a time of gifts reissued in paperback with an introduction by jan morris 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 Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Between the Woods and the Water

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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 t Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 oktober 2005

Aantal pagina's: 264

Illustraties: Met illustraties

Hoofdauteur: Patrick Leigh Fermor

Hoofduitgeverij: New York Review Of Books

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 127 mm

Product hoogte: 13 mm

Product lengte: 203 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 127 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm

Verpakking lengte: 200 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 422 g

EAN: 9781590171660

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