Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
Format: audiobook
ASIN: B00L61E6MK
Publish date: 2014-06-26
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Edition language: English
Series: Trilogy (#2)
I have to believe that Fermor's reputation as one of England's greatest writers must rest on many of his earlier books. Or maybe it's the the recommendation of lesser writers like Morris. This book gets three instead of fewer stars merely because 1) I'd recently passed through some of the same terra...
bookshelves: series, lit-richer, nonfiction, autobiography-memoir, paper-read, autumn-2015, nonfic-nov-2015, giftee, travel, hungary, romania, adventure Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Read from March 19 to November 30, 2015 A giftee! **Pets the package** Thanks Judy...
I was thoroughly lost in the Transylvanian forests.The greatest value of Fermor's travelogues is perhaps as a document of a vanished world: Europe between the wars. Landscapes political and physical have utterly changed, communities remodelled, migrated or erased. These books are like maps from Atla...
Must read this soon. If follows A Time of Gifts, which was superb. He starts from the bridge over the Danube approaching Budapest but he doesn't arrive in Constantinople! It ends at the Iron Gates, a gorge on the Danube River in the Carpathian Mountains between Romania and Serbia. It is the descripo...
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