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William Dalrymple.
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium.
Published London: HarperCollins, 1997.
ISBN 0002555093;
ISBN-13: 9780002555098.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Caledonian International, Glasgow.
Size: 159x240x41mm.
Page count: x,483pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is not too heavily worn; the binding is starting to sag a little, and is starting to split in front of the title page, though no pages are detached; text pages rather yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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[Flamingo paperback in print at £9.99]
Weight without packaging: 850g.

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In which the author sets out to retrace the journey of John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist, who in 587 AD set out on a journey arcing the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the dunes of Egypt.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 12 pages of monochrome plates and 4 pages of colour
Maps & plans: 1, repeated on front & back endpapers
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

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See also | Byzantium | Modern travelogues |
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