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21%OFFPatrick Leigh Fermor - Time to Keep Silence - 9780719555275 - V9780719555275
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Time to Keep Silence

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Description for Time to Keep Silence Paperback. A wonderful insight into the calm and contemplative world of the monastery from a premier travel writer. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCX8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 74.
From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records.

Product Details

Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719555275
SKU
V9780719555275
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About Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor is of English and Irish descent. After his stormy schooldays, followed by his walk across Europe to Constantinople, he lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek archipelago acquiring a deep interest in languages and remote places. He joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania, fought in Greece and Crete where, during the ... Read more

Reviews for Time to Keep Silence
The English language is still a superb instrument in the hands of a writer who has a virtuoso skill with words, a robust aesthetic passion, an indomitable curiosity and a rapturous historical imagination
Observer
The genius of Patrick Leigh Fermor is a many splendoured thing. Soldier, traveller, writer, Phihellene ... he has already dazzled and delighted ... It ... Read more

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