Between the Woods and the Water

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Between the Woods and the Water is a book so good your resent finishing it. -- Sunday Times 'The finest travelling companion we could ever have... His head is stocked with cultural lore and poetic fancy to make every league an adventure.' Christopher Hudson -- Evening Standard As full of zest, joy and delight as its predecessor -- Country Life He is exploring the very furthest boundaries of the genre. -- Jan Morris, The Times The most enjoyable living writer to be published this year -- Peter Levi, The Spectator I have never enjoyed a travel book more and I would doubt if I will ever enjoy one so much again -- Robin Lane Fox Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language -- Independent Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better -- Geographical Magazine John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world? -- Geographical Magazine 'For a spirited introduction [to the Balkans] try Patrick Leigh Fermor's account of a 1930s walk from Hungary to Romania and Bulgaria...rich in local history and a formative book in the rise of modern travel writing' - David Mattin -- The Times