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'Between the Woods and the Water is a book so good your resent finishing it.' (Sunday Times )
'The finest travelling companion we could ever have... His head is stocked with cultural lore and poetic fancy to make every league an adventure.' Christopher Hudson (Evening Standard )
'As full of zest, joy and delight as its predecessor' (Country Life )
'He is exploring the very furthest boundaries of the genre.' (Jan Morris, The Times )
'The most enjoyable living writer to be published this year' (Peter Levi, The Spectator )
'I have never enjoyed a travel book more and I would doubt if I will ever enjoy one so much again' (Robin Lane Fox )
'Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language' (Independent )
'Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better' (Geographical Magazine )
'John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world?' (Geographical Magazine )
'The finest travelling companion we could ever have... His head is stocked with cultural lore and poetic fancy to make every league an adventure.' Christopher Hudson (Evening Standard )
'As full of zest, joy and delight as its predecessor' (Country Life )
'He is exploring the very furthest boundaries of the genre.' (Jan Morris, The Times )
'The most enjoyable living writer to be published this year' (Peter Levi, The Spectator )
'I have never enjoyed a travel book more and I would doubt if I will ever enjoy one so much again' (Robin Lane Fox )
'Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language' (Independent )
'Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better' (Geographical Magazine )
'John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world?' (Geographical Magazine )
'For a spirited introduction [to the Balkans] try Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of a 1930s walk from Hungary to Romania and Bulgaria...rich in local history and a formative book in the rise of modern travel writing' - David Mattin
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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
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?
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?
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
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.
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picture of a vanished world
Leigh Fermor writes a witty and discursive memoir of a trip through Central Europe at the age of 18 recalled in his 60s. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Duncan S
Travel book of highest order
Patrick Leigh Fermor (who died recently) was an old-fashioned heroic figure that we once had in this country. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. Richard A. Spanner
An aristocrat wanders around aristocratic Europe
I'm afraid I'm going to have to dissent from most of the reviews here. This could have been a wonderful book about a region of Europe that soon after was destroyed by war and... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Agent
Splendid
Not only a wonderfull travel document but a glimpse into a long lost world. Problem is that after reading his books I realised just how little I have done in the past 70 years!!!!.
Published 15 months ago by greyman
read it
If you read this book you will have a very rare glimpse of a Europe before Hitler redefined our continental story.
Published 17 months ago by david
Simply wonderful
A wonderfully written account of a journey through a region that was irrevocably changed just a few years after the author travelled through it - a fact which lends added poignancy... Read more
Published on 10 April 2010 by N. Young
Between lost note books and a hazy memory.
Patrick Leigh Fermor is a legendary prose stylist, and his territory is the pre-war world of Central and Balkan Europe which was dredged to destruction first by the Nazis and then... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2009 by John Irons-patterson
Immensely enjoyable!
As one reviewer said it makes you envious of a vanished time and life style otherwise immensely enjoyable!
Published on 27 Sep 2008 by Mr. DAVID Geer
brilliant follow up to a time of gifts
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... Read more
Published on 27 Dec 1999
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