FERMOR, Patrick Leigh;

BETWEEN THE WOODS AND THE WATER. On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland; The Middle Danube to The Iron Gates.

New York. Published by Viking, 1986. First American Edition. 8vo.pp.248, index with 2 page map on coloured paper. Original blue hardcover in pictorial hardcover. Very good copy. Item #194455

After his walk across Europe, Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania and fought in Greece and Crete - living disguised as a shepherd in the mountains for two years organising resistance activities. He was awarded the DSO and CBE, and a knighthood in the 2004 new Year Honours List. He died in 2011.

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