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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

Dalrymple, William

Paperback

Ancient GreeceAncient RomeGeneral Middle East

Publisher Price: $34.99

ISBN10: 0805061770
ISBN13: 9780805061772
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Mar 15 1999
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This splendid book should take its rightful place on the same shelf as Chatwin's In Patagonia. [It is] rich with the poetry of antique places and transports the fascinated reader smoothly into a vanishing world.
--The Washington Post Book World

In 587 A.D., 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 fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps and composes an evensong for a dying civilization (Kirkus Reviews).

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