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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
by William Dalrymple
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0805061770
- ISBN 13
- 9780805061772
- Seller
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Steubenville, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Holt Paperbacks, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Family owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Pages are clean with no apparent marks. Binding is tight and square. Light shelf wear to cover. 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 Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookmarx Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121025
- Title
- From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
- Author
- William Dalrymple
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0805061770
- ISBN 13
- 9780805061772
- Publisher
- Holt Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- March 1999
- Pages
- 512
Terms of Sale
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Bookmarx Bookstore
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Steubenville, Ohio
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We are a small independent bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio, with a smattering of everything but a special love for the Catholic, Classic, and Literary.
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