Isbn From the Holy Mountain: Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium book Travel English 496 pages

Name: Isbn From the Holy Mountain: Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium book Travel English 496 pages
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ISBN From the Holy Mountain: Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium. Genre: Travel, Language version: English, Number of pages: 496 pages. Width: 130 mm, Height: 197 mm

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ISBN From the Holy Mountain: Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium. Genre: Travel, Language version: English, Number of pages: 496 pages. Width: 130 mm, Height: 197 mm

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ISBN From the Holy Mountain: Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium. Genre: Travel, Language version: English, Number of pages: 496 pages. Width: 130 mm, Height: 197 mm

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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.

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