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Between The Woods And The Water - on foot from Constantinople the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (Paperback)
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Between The Woods And The Water - on foot from Constantinople the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (Paperback)
Series: New York Review Books classics
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Discovery Miles 4 410
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Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in "A Time of
Gifts"
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 bya trip downriver to
Budapest, passage on horseback acrossthe 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 savoredin 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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