Between the woods and the water : on foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland : the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates / Patrick Leigh Fermor
by Fermor, Patrick Leigh
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0719542642
- ISBN 13
- 9780719542640
- Seller
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About This Item
London : Murray, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Not price-clipped. SIGNED by author. Physical description: 248 p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 map ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: Bridge passage -- Budapest -- The great Hungarian plain -- The marches of Transylvania -- Across the forest -- Triple fugue -- Carpathian uplands -- The end of middle Europe. Subjects: Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Fermor, Patrick Leigh Travel Europe, Eastern; Fermor, Patrick Leigh 1915-2011; Travel; Voyageurs britanniques Europe centrale Biographies; Europe Description and travel; Europe Description and travel 1919-1944; Danube River Valley; Eastern Europe.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 408478
- Title
- Between the woods and the water : on foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland : the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates / Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Author
- Fermor, Patrick Leigh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0719542642
- ISBN 13
- 9780719542640
- Publisher
- London : Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
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