In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the hook of holland to constantinople. Is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with hi...In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from the hook of holland to constantinople. Is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as hungary.