1986 Between the Woods and the Water: One Foot to Constantinople from The Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impression. 

With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.

This vivid and anticipated volume marks the second out of three travel books documenting Patrick Leigh Fermor's journey on-foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 

Continuing the journey down the Danube from Budapest, Fermor describes riding horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania.

With a double-page sketched map. 

Fermor played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer.