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| Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland - The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates | 
 enlarge | Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 3591
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0719566967
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780719566967
ASIN: 0719566967
Publication Date: April 8, 2004
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A great classic - and much more June 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Leigh Fermor's great classic is extraordinary. His language is immensely beautiful, but I believe that the secret to understand the book is that he is actually painting pictures with words. There are some great set pieces in this second volume such as the Easter ceremonies in Hungary, his unforgettable aristocratic hosts and the chateau life he began to lead after Munich while still camping out from time to time. His descriptions of those country houses, and their denizens, particularly once he crosses into Romania, are like small jewels.
The great glory of this book is the trip he makes in Transylvania: it shows a world which no longer exists (Romanian, Hungarians, Swabians etc all living together in one area) and makes one wish to go there immediately.
Leigh Fermor is a polymath and the book is not really travel literature at all, or if it is, it is of a totally different order to anything I have ever read.
Will Leigh Fermor write the promised third part of the great trilogy?
Simply wonderful September 11, 2002
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
This is the sequel to 'A Time of Gifts', and continues the young Leigh-Fermor's walk through the length of 1930s Europe. Here we start from where the previous book left off, at the border into Hungary, and continue through until the Iron Gates border between Rumania and Bulgaria. I immensely enjoyed 'A Time of Gifts', and this book is the perfect companion to it. It is a seamless mix between the world seen through the eager eyes of the nineteen-year-old Leigh Fermor, and a wealth of historical, geographical, linguisitc, and anthropological information, which must have taken most of the intervening decades for him to research. The one drawback of the book is the envy it is bound to create in the reader -- envy of his ability to take a journey such as this in a time now past, and envy (for those who also try to write) at the magnificent prose with which he has captured his memories. Patrick Leigh-Fermor's place in the ranks of the great writers of travel literature is already firmly established, and this is surely one of his finest. If reading this book doesn't inspire you to embark on a journey of your own, then I can only suggest you read it again, only this time with your eyes open.
Magical January 22, 2001
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I can only reiterate what the previous reviewer has written, you must read this book. 'Between the Woods and Water' is part two in the triology recounting PL-F's walk in 1933 from Holland to Istanbul. This book is an utter delight, the author must rank as one of the greatest travel writers alive. There is so much charm, poetry and delight within these pages that it would be a tragic shame to miss out on them.
brilliant follow up to a time of gifts December 27, 1999
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
To enhance the wanderlust yet again in a similar fashion to that seen in "A Time of Gifts" would take an author of great integrity and ability - Leigh Fermor manages once again. Possibly the best travel writer of the 20thC. PLF takes us on not only a journey but also on an adventure in philosophy, history and art. YOU MUST READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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