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A Time to Keep Silence : The Hungry Student - Patrick Leigh Fermor

A Time to Keep Silence

By: Patrick Leigh Fermor

Paperback | 1 April 2004 | Edition Number 1

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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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The English language is still a superb instrument in the hands of a writer who has a virtuoso skill with words, a robust aesthetic passion, an indomitable curiosity and a rapturous historical imagination - Observer

The genius of Patrick Leigh Fermor is a many splendoured thing. Soldier, traveller, writer, Phihellene ... he has already dazzled and delighted ... It is some time since more truth and beauty were distilled into a hundred pages - Stewart Perowne

A brilliant book - Sunday Times

Delightful ... His book is not only an admirable piece of travel writing; it is also a brilliant piece of human exploration - New Statesman

Introspection, history, reportage have their balanced places in a well-written book ... measured and lucent - Sunday Times

Patrick Leigh Fermor is a stylish, superb master of words, which he savours like the choicest vintage - The Times

What a delight it is to read a book so beautifully and sensitively written - Observer

A most successful attempt to portray the reactions of the man of the world (in the literal sense) when confronted with the monastic life - Daily Telegraph

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