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From the holy mountain a journey in the shadow of Byzantium

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.

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  • "Journey in the shadow of Byzantium"
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  • "Journey among the Christians of the Middle East"
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  • "William Dalrymple follows in the steps of two Byzantine monks. In 587 A.D., just before Islam erupted onto the Middle East, they journeyed from Constantinople to Egypt staying at and documenting the Christian communities, monasteries and hermitages along the way, a surprising number of which survive today."
  • "William Dalrymple follows in the steps of two Byzantine monks. In 587 A.D., just before Islam erupted onto the Middle East, they journeyed from Constantinople to Egypt staying at and documenting the Christian communitites, monasteries and hermitages along the way, a surprising number of which survive today."
  • "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."@en
  • "Reis langs de restanten van de oud-Byzantijnse wereld in de voetsporen van de monnik Johannes Moschus (ca. 550-619)."
  • "A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrympleʹs previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Their aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages and mystics of the Byzantine East before their fragile world shattered under the eruption of Islam. Almost 1500 years later, using the writings of John Moschos as his guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their footsteps. Taking in a civil war in Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the tensions of the West Bank and a fundamentalist uprising in Egypt, William Dalrympleʹs account is a stirring elegy to the dying civilisation of Eastern Christianity. -- Description from http://www.amazon.co.uk (April 19, 2012)."
  • "A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrympleʹs previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Their aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages and mystics of the Byzantine East before their fragile world shattered under the eruption of Islam. Almost 1500 years later, using the writings of John Moschos as his guide, William Dalrymple set off to retrace their footsteps. Taking in a civil war in Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the tensions of the West Bank and a fundamentalist uprising in Egypt, William Dalrympleʹs account is a stirring elegy to the dying civilisation of Eastern Christianity. -- Description from http://www.amazon.co.uk (April 19, 2012)."@en

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  • "Dans l'ombre de Byzance : sur les traces des chrétiens d'Orient"
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  • "In de schaduw van Byzantium"
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  • "From the Holy mountain : a journey in the shadow of Byzantium"
  • "Dans l'ombre de Byzance sur les traces des chrétiens d'Orient"
  • "From the Holy Mountain : a journey in the shadow of Byzantium"
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