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From the Holy Mountain
by William Dalrymple
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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
About The Author
William Dalrymple is a man of many and extraordinary talents. He is a renowned historian, an author and a critic. He has written a number of books which give us glimpses of Indian History and all of his books have been hugely successful, both in terms of critical acclaims as well as the masses response.
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