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From the Holy Mountain - William Dalrymple

From the Holy Mountain

A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
Buch | Softcover
512 Seiten
1998
Flamingo (Verlag)
978-0-00-654774-7 (ISBN)
CHF 29,90 inkl. MwSt
A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple’s previous work.


In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Their aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages and mystics of the Byzantine East before their fragile world shattered under the eruption of Islam. Almost 1500 years later, using the writings of John Moschos as his guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their footsteps.


Taking in a civil war in Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the tensions of the West Bank and a fundamentalist uprising in Egypt, William Dalrymple’s account is a stirring elegy to the dying civilisation of Eastern Christianity.

William Dalrymple’s first book, ‘In Xanadu’, won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award. His second, ‘City of Djinns’, won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. His third, ‘From the Holy Mountain’, was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He has also published a collection of his pieces about India, ‘The Age of Kali’, and three history books: ‘White Mughals’, which won the Wolfson Prize, ‘The Last Mughal’, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and ‘Nine Lives’, which won the Asia House Literary Award.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.5.1998
Zusatzinfo 24 b/w, 8 col plates (16pp)
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 420 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Naher Osten
Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
ISBN-10 0-00-654774-5 / 0006547745
ISBN-13 978-0-00-654774-7 / 9780006547747
Zustand Neuware
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