Between the Woods and the Water

On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

Fermor, Patrick Leigh

ISBN:
978-0-719-56696-7
Verlage:
Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.
Veröffentlicht 08.04.2004
Seiten 304
Einband Kartoniert
Länge 198,0mm
Breite 126,0mm
Höhe 25,0mm
Gewicht 217,0gr
Sprache Englisch

Second part of the travel classic, following „A Time Of Gifts“. Both feature the original John Craxton illustrated covers.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. 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.