Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods and the Water
Read on the flight back from Bangalore. Didn't realise it was the second in a series. Not sure what it is about early 20th century travelogues by posh Britons in Eastern Europe, but they do it for me. Very interesting on Hungary and Romania while there were still pre-industrial societies, and just before those societies were shattered by war. He writes just as the anschluss is occurring, and so a few months before the Nazis take over Eastern Europe and destroy the communites he visited.
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