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From the Holy Mountain William Dalrymple

From the Holy Mountain By William Dalrymple

From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple


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Summary

In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on a 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. More than a thousand years later, using their writings as a guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their steps.

From the Holy Mountain Summary

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple

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 civilization of Eastern Christianity and the peoples that have kept its flame alive.

Additional information

GOR001291076
9780002555098
0002555093
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
1997-04-07
352
Short-listed for Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award 1998 Short-listed for Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1998 Short-listed for Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1997
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