This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh
Fermor’s famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to
Constantinople. This S.O.E. officer walked into Hungary as a youth
of 19 at Easter of 1934 and left Transylvania in August. “A cross
between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene” as the New
York Times obituary put it in 2011, this intrepid traveller
published his experiences half a century later. Between the Woods
and the Water covers the part of the epic journey on foot from the
middle Danube to the Iron Gates. It has been a bestseller since it
was first published in 1986. O’Sullivan reveals the identity of
the interesting characters in the travelogue, interviewing several
of their descendants and meticulously recreating Leigh Fermor’s
time spent among the Hungarian nobility. Leigh Fermor’s
recollections of his 1934 contacts are at once a proof of a
lifelong attraction for the aristocracy, and a confirmation of his
passionate love of history and understanding of the region. Rich
with photos and other rare documents on places and persons both
from the 1930s and today, the book offers a compelling social and
political history of the period and the area. Described by
Professor Norman Stone as “a major work of Hungarian social
archaeology,” this book provides a portrait of Hungary and
Transylvania on the brink of momentous change.
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