{"product_id":"time-to-keep-silence","title":"Time to Keep Silence","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTime to Keep Silence\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePatrick Leigh Fermor\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781590172445\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWhile still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, \u003ci\u003eA Time of Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBetween the Woods and the Water\u003c\/i\u003e. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in \u003ci\u003eA Time to Keep Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, Leigh Fermor writes about a more inward journey, describing his several sojourns in some of Europe's oldest and most venerable monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of St. Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning; at Solesmes, famous for its revival of Gregorian chant; and at the deeply ascetic Trappist monastery of La Grande Trappe, where monks take a vow of silence. Finally, he visits the rock monasteries of Cappadocia, hewn from the stony spires of a moonlike landscape, where he seeks some trace of the life of the earliest Christian anchorites. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than a history or travel journal, however, this beautiful short book is a meditation on the meaning of silence and solitude for modern life. Leigh Fermor writes, \"In the seclusion of a cell--an existence whose quietness is only varied by the silent meals, the solemnity of ritual, and long solitary walks in the woods--the troubled waters of the mind grow still and clear, and much that is hidden away and all that clouds it floats to the surface and can be skimmed away; and after a time one reaches a state of peace that is unthought of in the ordinary world.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Time to Keep Silence | Patrick Leigh Fermor | Paperback | 9781590172445 | New | Travelogues 1607143","offer_id":50679820091650,"sku":"1607143","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71_jqxsvXYL.jpg?v=1791367580","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/time-to-keep-silence","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}