Fermor, Patrick – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:25:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Fermor, Patrick – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Time To Keep Silence https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/time-to-keep-silence/ Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/time-to-keep-silence/ 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.

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