Description

The recommended travel writer's vibrant journey - being an 18-yr-old - across 1930s Europe on foot started in A Period of Gifts, which lined mcdougal's demanding journey in the Lowlands so far as Hungary. Picking right up in the very place on a bridge across the Danube where his visitors last saw him, we journey on with him across the truly amazing Hungarian Plain on horseback, and within the Romanian border to Transylvania. The journey was an exploration of the region which was already exhibiting symptoms of the holocaust which was in the future. Fermor's consideration also supplies a coherent knowledge of the remarkable activities subsequently unfolding in Middle Europe, though often recognized for his musical writing.