From the Holy Mountain by Dalrymple, William

From the Holy Mountain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307948892)

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From the Holy Mountain by Dalrymple, William

From the Holy Mountain

$17.95
From the Holy Mountain by Dalrymple, William

From the Holy Mountain

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos's writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple's unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.

Author: William Dalrymple
ISBN-10: 0307948897
ISBN-13: 9780307948892
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2012
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.38w x 0.99d
By William Dalrymple
By William Dalrymple
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William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.

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