{"product_id":"from-the-holy-mountain-isbn-9780307948892","title":"From the Holy Mountain","description":"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.“This splendid book should take its rightful place on the same shelf as Chatwin’s \u003ci\u003eIn Patagonia\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . [It is] rich with the poetry of antique places…[and] transports the fascinated reader smoothly into a vanishing world.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An elegant, poignant, and courageous account of a journey that pits the idealism of the past against the hatred, dispossession, and denial of the present.” —Karen Armstrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dalrymple’s threnody for Eastern Christianity ranks with the great modern travel books, Robert Byron’s \u003ci\u003eRoad to Oxiana\u003c\/i\u003e, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s \u003ci\u003eTime of Gifts\u003c\/i\u003e and Eric Newby’s \u003ci\u003eShort Walk in the Hindu Kush\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Any travel writer who is so good at his job as to be brilliant, applauded, loved and needed has to have an unusual list of qualities, and William Dalrymple has them all in aces. Dalrymple’s ear for conversation is as good as Alan Bennett’s. The best and most unexpected book I have read since I forget when.” —Peter Levi, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003eWilliam Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including \u003ci\u003eCity of Djinns\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book award; the bestselling \u003ci\u003eFrom the Holy Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhite Mughals\u003c\/i\u003e, which won Britain's most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson; and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Mughal\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography. He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301391028453,"sku":"NP9780307948892","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307948892.jpg?v=1767727751","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/from-the-holy-mountain-isbn-9780307948892","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}