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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple (Paperback, 1998)
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His first book, In Xanadu, was instantly recognised as a classic, and has sold over 60,000 copies in paperback. Major national press advertising campaign. "Any travel writer who is so good at his job as to be brilliant, applauded, loved and needed has to have an unusual list of qualities, and William Dalrymple has them all in aces.
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The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' - Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' - George Mackay Brown). In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their world shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their footsteps. Despite centuries of isolation, a surprising number of the monasteries and churches visited by the two monks still survive today, surrounded by often hostile populations. Dalrymple's pilgrimage took him through a bloody civil war in eastern Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the vicious tensions of the West Bank and a fundamentalist uprising in southern Egypt. His book is an elegy to the slowly dying civilisation of Eastern Christianity and the peoples that have kept its flame alive. It is a rich and gripping blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with a thread of black comedy familiar to readers of Dalrymple's previous work.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780006547747
eBay Product ID (ePID)91375397
Product Key Features
Publication Year1998
TopicTravel Writing
Book TitleFrom the Holy Mountain: a Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorWilliam Dalrymple
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight420 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorWilliam Dalrymple
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