From the Holy Mountain

From the Holy Mountain

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Publisher: Macmillan
Genres: History Books, Travel & Holiday Guides, Nonfiction
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Pages: 483 pages
ISBN10: 0805061770
ISBN13: 9780805061772
Tags: History Books, Travel & Holiday Guides Books, Nonfiction Books, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: PDF Book
Type: PDF

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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