1st Edition
Patrick Leigh Fermor Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania
By Michael O'Sullivan
Copyright 2018
310 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous excursion on foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in the 1930s. The highly regarded British travel writer and heroic wartime Special Operations Executive officer walked into Hungary as a youth of 19 at Easter and left Transylvania in August 1934. This intrepid traveler, a cross between Indiana Jones,... Read more
Acknowledgements, Note on Personal Names, Place Names and Hungarian Titles, Introduction, Prologue. The Bridge at Esztergom, I. Budapest, II. Across the Alföld—The Great Hungarian Plain, III. The Banat, IV. Transylvania Xenia 'István', V. Epilogue. Return to Budapest, Bibliography, Index
Biography
He was Vienna correspondent of the London Independent and later worked on both the Foreign and Parliamentary desks of Ireland's national broadcasting service RTE. He is the author of bestselling biographies of Mary Robinson, Ireland's first woman president and later UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has also written biographies of the founding father of the modern Irish state, Sean Lemass and of the playwright Brendan Behan.
