Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania

by Michael O'Sullivan

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6155225648
• ISBN13: 9786155225642
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up