From the Holy Mountain 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.William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and in 2002 was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to travel literature’. He wrote and presented the TV series ‘Stones of the Raj’ and ‘Indian Journeys’, which won BAFTA’s 2002 Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series. He and his wife, artist Olivia Fraser, have three children, and divide their time between London and Delhi.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002555098 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002555093 |
| Title | From the Holy Mountain |
| Author | William Dalrymple |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1997-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Prizes | 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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