by William Dalrymple · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780805061772
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«From the Holy Mountain» is William Dalrymple's travel and history narrative, published by Macmillan in paperback (496 pages, in English).
In AD 587, the monks John Moschus and Sophronius the Sophist traveled the Byzantine world gathering the wisdom of hermits and desert fathers. More than a millennium later, William Dalrymple follows in their footsteps through Turkey, Lebanon, the West Bank and Egypt, composing a testimony on the Eastern Christian communities and their history.
The subtitle of «From the Holy Mountain» is «A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East». The work was originally published in 1997; this edition is from 1999.
For readers of history, religion and travel literature interested in Eastern Christianity and the Middle East.
William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple is a Scottish historian, art historian, indologist, curator, broadcaster, critic and author.
