A Time To Keep Silence

Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better Informationen zum Autor In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople in early 1935. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzene, with whom he lived - mostly in Rumania - until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO and was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Eyres Monsell whom he later married. Towards the end of his life he wrote the first two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water . He planned a third, unfinished at the time of his death in 2011, which has since been edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper and published as The Broken Road . Klappentext A wonderful insight into the calm and contemplative world of the monastery, written by the popular travel writer. A wonderful insight into the calm and contemplative world of the monastery from a premier travel writer. Zusammenfassung A wonderful insight into the calm and contemplative world of the monastery from a premier travel writer.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Fermor, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.03.2004
• EAN: 9780719555275
• ISBN: 978-0-7195-5527-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Monasticism, Christianity, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism