|
|
Please Wait. Checking Prices.....
Compare Book Prices and get the Cheapest UK Price for
'From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium' by William Dalrymple. |
Are our stores safe?
Before we add any store to our price scanning software we
carefully check that is a reliable and safe retailer. All our stores use secure
socket layer (SSL) technology to prevent your credit card information from
being stolen. They are also all members of major affiliate networks and have
reasonable trading, returns and privacy policies. You can buy with confidence
at any of the stores we check.
|
| Description | The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu ('one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years' Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns ('the best travel book I have ever read' George Mackay Brown). 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 civilisation of Eastern Christianity and the peoples that have kept its flame alive. It is a rich and gripping blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with a thread of black comedy familiar to readers of Dalrymple's previous work. | | Release Date | 1998 | | Author | William Dalrymple | | Format | Dimensions 19.2x20.0x3.4 cm
60 pages
book | | Publisher | HarperCollins UK | | Subject(s) | Biography & Autobiography / General
History / General
History / Ancient / Greece
History / Ancient / Rome
History / World
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Religion / Christianity / General
Religion / Christian Church / History
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
Travel / General
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / Middle East / General |
Where delivery prices can be checked live they are. If this is not possible then our most recent record of the stores standard UK delivery is used. These are updated regularly. All prices are meant as a guide and are in no way legally binding.
|
|
Last Updated
18/05/2024 at 04:00. |
|
|
|
