Between the Woods and the Water | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780719566967 | Between the Woods and the Water | Patrick Leigh Fermor | Taschenbuch

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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.

The concluding part of the trilogy was published in September 2013 as The Broken Road.

Über den Autor

In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived - mostly in Rumania - until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO and was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell whom he later married. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Reiseberichte
Region:	Europa
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel:	Zwischen Wäldern und Wasser
Inhalt:	288 S.
ISBN-13:	9780719566967
ISBN-10:	0719566967
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Hersteller:	Hodder And Stoughton Ltd. John Murray Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Abbildungen:	frontispiece and map
Maße:	198 x 126 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Patrick Leigh Fermor
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.04.2004
Gewicht:	0,217 kg