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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK AWARDIn 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century. Aged eighteen, Nick Hunt read A Time of Gifts and dreamed of following in Fermor's footsteps. In 2011 he began his own great trudge - on foot all the way to Istanbul. He walked across Europe through eight countries, following two major rivers and crossing three mountain ranges.
About the Author
Nick Hunt has walked and written across much of Europe. His articles have appeared in The Economist, The Guardian and other publications, and he works as an editor for the Dark Mountain Project. His first book, Walking the Woods and the Water (Nicholas Brealey, 2014) , was a finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. He currently lives in Bristol.
