From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
by William Dalrymple
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0002555093
- ISBN 13
- 9780002555098
- Seller
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Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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.
condition very good and unmarked. Slight shelf wear to dustcover. Unclipped. Slight browning of pages.
Synopsis
From the Holy Mountain is a 1997 historical travel book by William Dalrymple. Dalrymple's third book From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (1997) saw him trace the ties of Eastern Orthodox congregations scattered in the Middle East to their ancient origins; it also deals with the question of how they have fared over centuries of Islamic rule and the complex relationship of Islam and Christianity in the Middle East.
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- Bookseller
- Ari Dictum (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 283
- Title
- From the Holy Mountain
- Author
- William Dalrymple
- Format/Binding
- Blue board with gilt tooled spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002555093
- ISBN 13
- 9780002555098
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
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