Patrick Leigh Fermor: Between the Woods and the Water, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Between the Woods and the Water
Buch
- On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
- Verlag:
- Hodder And Stoughton Ltd., 04/2004
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780719566967
- Artikelnummer:
- 2236320
- Umfang:
- 304 Seiten
- Sonstiges:
- frontispiece and map
- Altersempfehlung:
- Hobby/Freizeit
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2004
- Gewicht:
- 217 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 126 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 8.4.2004
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
The second great Patrick Leigh Fermor classic - and the sequel to A Time of Gifts - reissued in paperback with an Introduction by Jan MorrisBeschreibung
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary.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.
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 dramatic events then unfolding in Middle Europe. But the delight remains in travelling with him in his picaresque journey past remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges.
The concluding part of the trilogy will be published in September 2013 as The Broken Road.
Rezension
Between the Woods and the Water is a book so good your resent finishing it. Sunday TimesKlappentext
Second part of the travel classic, following "A Time Of Gifts". Both feature the original John Craxton illustrated covers.
Biografie
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1915 geboren, unternahm 1933 als achtzehnjähriger eine legendäre Reise zu Fuß von Rotterdam nach Constantinopel. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg kämpfte er als Verbindungsoffizier in Griechenland und auf Kreta gegen die deutsche Besatzung. Er reiste in die Karibik, wo sein erster und einziger Roman entstand. In der englischsprachigen Welt als Reiseschriftsteller hochgeachtet, lebt er heute in Griechenland, in einem Haus, das er selbst entworfen und gebaut hat.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Between the Woods and the Water
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