A Time to Keep Silence

by Fermor, Patrick Leigh | Christian communities & monasticism
Published 15/03/2004 by John Murray Press (John Murray Publishers Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 96 pages, none
197 x 129 x 6mm | 76g

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.