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The opening of the book finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube—at the
very moment where his first volume left off. A detour to the luminous
splendors of Prague is followed by a trip downriver to Budapest, passage
on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain,
and a crossing of the Romanian border into Transylvania. Remote
castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges that are the
haunt of bears, wolves, eagles, gypsies, and a variety of sects are all
savored in the approach to the Iron Gates, the
division between the Carpathian mountains and the Balkans, where, for
now, the story ends.
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