{"product_id":"9780719566967","title":"Between the Woods and the Water","description":"Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780719566967\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: John Murray\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Apr 2004\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePicking 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER was published nine years after A TIME OF GIFTS, Fermor is famously still at work on the concluding part of his trilogy.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46697708585118,"sku":"ADS-9780719566967","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780719566967.jpg?v=1775718940","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780719566967","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}