Those who know the author as a man of action and a travel writer of distinction will find here a different kind of journey but with the same fine art of description and reflection, for it is a graphic account of his travels to the Benedictine abbey of St Wandrille, the abbey of Solesmes, the Cistercian monastery of La Grande Trappe, and the rock monasteries of Cappadocia. Patrick Leigh Fermor includes his thoughts on the benefit of occasional retreat into the discipline and calm of the cloister.
- ISBN10 0719539633
- ISBN13 9780719539633
- Publish Date 1 March 1989 (first published 12 December 1988)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 October 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96
- Language English