Bibliograph

From the holy mountain, a journey in the shadow of Byzantium, William Dalrymple

Type

Label

From the holy mountain, a journey in the shadow of Byzantium, William Dalrymple

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

From the holy mountain

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

William Dalrymple

Sub title

a journey in the shadow of Byzantium

Summary

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 civilization of Eastern Christianity

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Journey in the shadow of Byzantium

Classification