Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn

by Nick Hunt

In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857886178
• ISBN13: 9781857886177
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.4"