From the Holy Mountain
A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
Written by: William Dalrymple
Category: Non Fiction
Genre: Travel, Europe
Book Details:
ISBN 10: 0006547745
ISBN 13: 9780006547747
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: May 5th, 1998
Language: English
Condition: Very Good
Appearance: The book is in very good condition. The cover shows minimal signs of wear with no noticeable creases or tears. The spine is intact and the pages are clean with no markings, highlighting, or annotations. The binding is tight and the corners are sharp.
Synopsis:
In the spring of 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary 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. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their world shattered under the great eruption of Islam. 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.
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