Patrick Leigh Fermor

Patrick Leigh Fermor was a British author, scholar, and adventurer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest travel writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1915, he set off at 18 to walk across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. Between the Woods and the Water is the second volume of his trilogy about that epic walk — covering his journey through Hungary and Romania in 1934. Leigh Fermor's prose is celebrated for its extraordinary erudition, its sensory richness, and its joyful celebration of European culture. Leigh Fermor died in 2011. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most beautiful travel writing in the English language — prose of extraordinary richness that makes you ache to set off on foot across Europe.