Between The Woods And The Water Av Patrick Leigh Fermor

<p><b>''A book so good you''ll resent finishing it'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>''The finest travelling companion we could ever have'' <i>Evening Standard </i></b><br><br><b>''Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language'' <i>Independent</i></b><br><br><b>INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS</b><br><br>The acclaimed travel writer''s youthful journey -- as an 18-year-old -- across 1930s Europe by foot began in <i>A Time of Gifts</i>, which covered the author''s exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. <br><br>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.<br><br>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 dr