Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot from Constantinople the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates
- ISBN-10
- 1590171667
- ISBN-13
- 9781590171660
- Series
- Between the Woods and the Water
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
Description
Originally published: London: Murray, 1986. With new introd.
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