Arguably the greatest travel book ever written. An 18 year old Fermor takes us through a Europe between the Wars, from the taverns of small Bavarian towns to the castles of the Hungarian Steppe; his prose striking, evocative, and sublimely beautiful.  Even though in this book he only spends a few nights on the water (on a river barge along the mighty Danube), Fermor embodies the spirit and passion of a great adventurer and will forever inspire us here at Navio.