From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Dalrymple, William

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ISBN 10: 0805061770 ISBN 13: 9780805061772

Casa editrice: Picador Paper, 1999

Riassunto

A retracing of a pilgrimage of 587 A.D. chronicles the journeys of two monks across the pre-Islamic Byzantine Empire as they collect the ancient Christian wisdom of sages and desert hermits, and discusses the same region today. Reprint.

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L'autore

William Dalrymple is the award-winning author of the British bestsellers In Xanadu and The City of Djinns. He divides his time between London, Edinburgh, and Delhi.

Product Description

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

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• Editore: Picador Paper
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0805061770
• ISBN 13: 9780805061772
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512