From the Holy Mountain (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for From the Holy Mountain Originally published: Great Britain: HarperCollins, 1997.
Full description- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Published: 15 March 1999
- Format: Paperback 512 pages
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- Categories: Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Guidebooks
- ISBN 13: 9780805061772 ISBN 10: 0805061770
- Sales rank: 199,506
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Full description for From the Holy Mountain
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, " starred review
