While still a teenager Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe as recounted in his classic memoirs A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in A Time to Keep Silence Leigh Fermor writes about a more inward journey describing his several sojourns in some of Europes oldest and most venerable monasteries. He stays at the Abbey of St. Wandrille a great repository of art and learning at Sol