From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (Text Only)

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (Text Only)

by William Dalrymple
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 21/06/2012

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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 John Moschos as his guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their footsteps.


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.

ISBN:
9780007381326
9780007381326
Category:
Travel writing
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
21-06-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was just twenty-two.

Since then, he has had seven more books published and won numerous awards for his writing, including the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, the Hemingway Prize and The Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage.

He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

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