on foot to Constantinople : from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube Penguin travel library
304 pages
English language
Published May 27, 1979 by Penguin Books.
Leigh Fermor walked from London to Budapest when he was 18. Sometimes called England's greatest travel writer.
too many finials and not enough action
A great evocation of places and times. Fermer was a young Briton who schlepped across Europe in the mid-1930's. Yet he looks back on it from the perspective of old age. To me, he is the epitome of the slightly aristocratic English academic with knowledge across an astonishing breadth - yet who remains engaged with the world. The real-life type of John LeCarre's spymasters.returnreturnThe book has a certain leisurelyness that can grate, but once I got into the rhythmn it carried me along.
