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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium

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Description for From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium paperback. A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. Num Pages: 512 pages, 24 b/w, 8 col plates (16pp). BIC Classification: 1FB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 380.

A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple’s previous work.

In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Their aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages and mystics of the Byzantine East before their fragile world shattered under the eruption of Islam. Almost 1500 years later, using the writings of ... Read more

Taking in a civil war in Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the tensions of the West Bank and a fundamentalist uprising in Egypt, William Dalrymple’s account is a stirring elegy to the dying civilisation of Eastern Christianity.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006547747
SKU
9780006547747
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple’s first book, ‘In Xanadu’, won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award. His second, ‘City of Djinns’, won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His third, ‘From the Holy Mountain’, was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and ... Read more

Reviews for From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium
‘Compulsively readable.’ John Julius Norwich, Observer ‘Everything a really good travel book should be: witty, learned and also very funny.’ Eric Newby ‘Any travel writer who is so good at his job as to be brilliant, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium


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