October Books 13) A Time of Gifts and 14) Between the Woods and the Water

[nwhyte]

13) A Time of Gifts, by Patrick Leigh Fermor
14) Between the Woods and the Water, by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Two brilliant, brilliant books of travel writing: the first describes Leigh Fermor's journey on foot through the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in the winter and spring of 1933 and 1934; the second takes him on through Hungary

Comments

[chickenfeet2003]

I love love love those books and so does everyone I have them pimped them to. The Folio editions are especially nice.

[saare_snowqueen]

These are two of my all time favourite books - along with the 2 about Greece: 'Mani' and Roumeli'. If I could write a travel book half as good as any of these, I would die happy.

[rozk]

They are gorgeous books - I have always hoped for volume 3 but it is obviously off in some alternate world somewhere. My favourite bit is the old scholar who tells him that Attila's Huns dressed in garments made from dyed hamster skins sewn together.