Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Title: Between the Woods and the Water: One Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Description: London , John Murray, 1986. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's sequel to his travel series, narrating his journey on foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This vivid and anticipated volume marks the second out of three travel books documenting Patrick Leigh Fermor's journey on-foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Continuing the journey down the Danube from Budapest, Fermor describes riding horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania.With a double-page sketched map. Fermor played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is very smart, with slight edge wear. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Between the Woods and the Water Patrick Leigh Fermor Travel Europe Patrick Leigh Fermor Holland None


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