Why a Booktrail?
1930s: A man sets out to walk across Europe on one pound a day
Between the Woods and the Water
What you need to know before your trail
The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933—to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day—proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them,
Travel Guide
The opening of the book finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube—at the very moment where his first volume left off. A detour to the luminous splendors of Prague is followed by a trip downriver to Budapest, passage on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and a crossing of the Romanian border into Transylvania. Remote castles, mountain villages,monasteries and towering ranges that are the haunt of bears, wolves, eagles, gypsies, and a variety of sects are all savored in the approach to the Iron Gates, the division between the Carpathian mountains and the Balkans, where, for now, the story ends.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Between the Woods and the Water
Destination/Location : Europe, Hungary, Romania Author/Guide: Patrick Leigh Fermor Departure Time: 1930s
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