Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn

by Nick Hunt

the effortless familiarity of men who had known each other their whole lives, who had been to school together, worked together, been to each other’s weddings, had fights and made up again, and drunk together every morning and night, and probably in between as well. These bonds were tribal, knitted so tight they couldn’t easily be picked apart;