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The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
Virgil, David West, David Alexander West
A Little History of the World
Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, Caroline Mustill, Clifford Harper
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus, Michael Grant

Between the Woods and the Water

Between the Woods and the Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor A wonderful portrait of a vanished world. His trip on foot across Europe apparently bred in Leigh Fermor a love of language and remote places but through his exuberant personality, the wonderful writing, the remarkable range of his learning and the irresistible flow of his descriptive prose made me want to live it too.