A TIME TO KEEP SILENCE

While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Be tween the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in A Tim e to Keep Silence, Leigh Fermor writes about a more inward journey, describing his several sojourns in some of Europes oldest and m ost venerable monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of St. Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning/ at Solesmes, famous for i ts reviva...[Read more]