Time to Keep Silence

Name: Time to Keep Silence
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ISBN: 9781590172445

ISBN-10: 1590172442

ISBN-13: 9781590172445

Edition: 2007

Authors: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Karen Armstrong, Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Patrick Leigh Fermor set off as a teenager to make his way across Europe, as recorded in his classic memoirs,A Time of GiftsandBetween the Woods and the Water. Later he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete.A Time to Keep Silencestands out among Leigh Fermor’s various tales of travel and adventure because it is more an inward than an outward voyage. Here Leigh Fermor chronicles his several sojourns in some of Europe’s oldest and most celebrated monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning; at Solesmes, famous for its revival of Gregorian Chant; and finally at the deeply ascetic Trappist monastery of La Grande Trappe, where…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 4.98" wide x 7.97" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.330

Karen Armstrong is one of the foremost commentators on religious affairs in both Britain and the United States. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun and received a degree at Oxford University.