Between the Woods and the Water
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Walking pre-war Europe. The world is about to end.
you want to travel through a Europe that no longer exists with someone who had the gift of total attention
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In 1934 the eighteen-year-old Leigh Fermor set out to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This second volume covers Hungary and Romania — the old aristocracy still in their crumbling houses, the Roma musicians, the peasant villages, a world weeks away from the catastrophe of the Second World War. Leigh Fermor wrote it forty years later from memory and notebooks. A visitor dispatch from inside a Europe that was already ending, written by someone who understood what had been lost only in retrospect. One of the most beautiful books of travel writing in the English language.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Eastern Europe
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Eastern Europe
