![]() ![]() He takes the reader with him downriver to Budapest, then on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania. ![]() The opening of "Between the Woods and the Water" finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube, at the moment where his first volume - "A Time of Gifts" - left off. "Between the Woods and the Water" has won as many prestigious awards as its predecessor. Undertaken as the storms of war gathered, and providing a context for unfolding events in Central Europe, this journey has captivated generations. The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor began in 1933 at the age of eighteen - to cross Europe on foot with an 'emergency' allowance of a 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. ![]()
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