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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Acknowledgements 10 Note on Personal Names, Place Names and Hungarian Titles 14 Introduction 18 Prologue. The Bridge at Esztergom 26 i. Budapest 36 II. Across the Alfￃﾶld￢ﾀﾔThe Great Hungarian Plain 134 III. The Banat 174 IV. Transylvania 248 V. Epilogue. Return to Budapest 280 Bibliography 296 Index 302 Publisher:Central European University Press,Published:2018,ISBN:9789633861721,Related ISBN:9786155225642,Language:English,OCLC:1035814312 This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s famous excursion on foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in the 1930s. The highly regarded British travel writer and heroic wartime Special Operations Executive officer walked into Hungary as a youth of 19 at Easter and left Transylvania in August 1934. This intrepid traveler, "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene" as the New York Times obituary put it in 2011, published his experiences half a century later. Between the Woods and the Water, that covers the part of the epic foot journey from the middle Danube to the Iron Gates, has been a bestseller since it was first published in 1986. In the
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- Author
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh;O'Sullivan, Michael
- Publisher
- Central European University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786155225642
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Adventure, History