Between the Woods And the Water: On Foot To Constantinople: The Middle Danube To The Iron Gates
by Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Morris, Jan
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- Used - Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 1590171667
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171660
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Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania, and fought in Greece and Crete. He was awarded the DSO and OBE. He lived partly in Greece—in the house he designed with his wife, Joan, in an olive grove in the Mani—and partly in Worcestershire. He was knighted in 2004 for his services to literature and to British–Greek relations. Jan Morris was born in 1926, is Anglo-Welsh, and lives in Wales. She has written some forty books, including the Pax Britannica trilogy about the British Empire; studies of Wales, Spain, Venice, Oxford, Manhattan, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Trieste; six volumes of collected travel essays; two memoirs; two capricious biographies; and a couple of novels—but she defines her entire oeuvre as “disguised autobiography.” She is an honorary D.Litt. of the University of Wales and a Commander of the British Empire. Her memoir Conundrum is available as a New York Review Book Classic.
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- 1348843
- Title
- Between the Woods And the Water: On Foot To Constantinople: The Middle Danube To The Iron Gates
- Author
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Morris, Jan
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590171667
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171660
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2005-10-03
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