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*Between the Woods and the Water* is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor, the second in a series of three books narrating the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34.
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- Author
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 259
- Publisher
- guild publishing, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, ISIS
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- French, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780719555251
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Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as *A Time of Gifts* (1977).
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