From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East - Softcover

9780307948892: From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple’s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:
William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.
From Kirkus Reviews:
A memorable historical journey through the twilight of Eastern Christianity in the Middle East, heartfelt and beautifully told. Dalrymple (The City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, 1994) has carved an unorthodox niche for an English travel writer: He is following in the 1,400-year-old path of an Orthodox monk. In 587, Friar John Moschos and a young student trekked across the Middle East, collecting precious relics and manuscripts from obscure monasteries, from present-day Turkey to Egypt. Dalrymples quest is similar; he is preserving the stories of the last generation of Orthodox Christians in the Middle East. Retracing Moschoss steps, Dalrymple finds once glorious Christian communities on the brink of extinction. One Turkish village that had 17 Syrian Orthodox churches now has only one [Christian] inhabitant, its elderly priest. In Turkey, Armenian Christianity has been more systematically erased, with cathedrals renovated into mosques, gravestones obliterated, and any mention of the Armenian presence in Turkey censored from publications, turning their existence into a historical myth. In one town, Dalrymple interviews a superannuated survivor of the Syrian Christian resistance of 1915, when Syrians witnessed the genocide of the Armenians and knew that they were next to be deported. Today, however, the descendants of Orthodox Christians in Turkey and elsewhere are emigrating as quickly as they can. Old churches stand abandoned or are employed for other purposesin Istanbul, for example, Dalrymple is denied entrance to a famous basilica because there is a Turkish beauty contest going on inside. Dalrymple is a talented writer, with a subtle wit, a keen eye for historical irony, and a relish for architectural detail. If his treatment of Eastern Orthodoxy is somewhat romantic, ignoring centuries of internecine conflict among various ethnic groups, it is understandable given his urgency to record the plight of this last generation of Orthodox practitioners in Muslim-dominated areas. An evensong for a dying civilization. (24 b&w and 8 color photos, not seen) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherVintage
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 0307948897
  • ISBN 13 9780307948892
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages512
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780805061772: From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780805061772
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1999
Softcover

  • 9780805058734: From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

    Henry ..., 1998
    Hardcover

  • 9780143031086: From The Holy Mountain

    PENGUI..., 2004
    Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Seller Image

Dalrymple, William
Published by Vintage (2012)
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New Softcover Quantity: 5
Seller:
GreatBookPrices
(Columbia, MD, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 18840313-n

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 14.03
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 2.64
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

DALRYMPLE, WILLIAM
Published by Penguin Random House (2012)
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
INDOO
(Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Brand New. Seller Inventory # 0307948897

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 12.69
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.99
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

William Dalrymple
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Grand Eagle Retail
(Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschoss writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymples unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East. "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers, London, in 1997. Subsequently published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, in 1998"--Title page verso. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780307948892

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 18.66
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Dalrymple, William
Published by Vintage (2012)
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GF Books, Inc.
(Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. Seller Inventory # 0307948897-2-1

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 19.17
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Dalrymple, William
Published by Vintage (2012)
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0307948897-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 19.18
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Dalrymple, William
Published by Vintage (2012)
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Ergodebooks
(Houston, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # BKZN9780307948892

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 19.19
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Dalrymple, William
Published by Vintage (2012)
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Ebooksweb
(Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. . Seller Inventory # 52GZZZ00U5Y5_ns

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 21.78
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

William Dalrymple
Published by Vintage October 2012 (2012)
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New Paper Back Quantity: 1
Seller:
Eighth Day Books, LLC
(Wichita, KS, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paper Back. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 115139

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 17.95
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.95
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

William Dalrymple
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New PAP Quantity: 5
Seller:
PBShop.store US
(Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.)

Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # WB-9780307948892

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 23.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

William Dalrymple
ISBN 10: 0307948897 ISBN 13: 9780307948892
New paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Blackwell's
(Oxford, OX, United Kingdom)

Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9780307948892

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 17.95
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 5.68
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book