From the Holy Mountain.: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East.
by DALRYMPLE, William
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
London,: Harper Collins, 1997. First edition. Signed by author on the title page. In near fine unclipped dust jacket. Decorative endpapers. Under dust jacket the cloth boards are spotless and the gilt title is bright. No foxing. Internally too everything is clean and bright. "It is a rich and gripping blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with a thread of black comedy." The author retraces the footsteps of monks John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist through eastern Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the West Bank and southern Egypt. x, 484 pp.
Synopsis
From the Holy Mountain is a 1997 historical travel book by William Dalrymple. Dalrymple's third book From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (1997) saw him trace the ties of Eastern Orthodox congregations scattered in the Middle East to their ancient origins; it also deals with the question of how they have fared over centuries of Islamic rule and the complex relationship of Islam and Christianity in the Middle East.
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- Bookseller
- Harrison-Hiett Rare Books (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2228
- Title
- From the Holy Mountain.
- Author
- DALRYMPLE, William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- London,
- Date Published
- 1997
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- christianity, signed, history, spirituality, monk, John Moschos, adventure, politics, religion, black comedy, Turkey, Beirut,
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