From the Holy Mountain

Author(s): William Dalrymple

Travel Writing

In the spring of 587 A.D., 2 men set out from the great desert monastery of St Theodosius, near Bethlehem. It was the start of an extraordinary journey across the entire Byzantine world, and William Dalrymple has followed in their footsteps.


Product Information

Shortlisted for Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award 1998 and Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1998 and Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1997.

'Compulsively readable' John Julius Norwich, Observer; 'Everything a really good travel book should be: witty, learned and also very funny' Eric Newby

William Dalrymple was born in Scotland. His first book, In Xanadu, won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award, and was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. His second, City of Djinns, won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. He was recently elected the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is currently writing a six-part television series on the buildings of the Raj for Channel 4.

General Fields

  • : 9780006547747
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins GB
  • : 0.42
  • : July 1998
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : William Dalrymple
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 915.6/0453
  • : 512
  • : WTL
  • : 24 b/w, 8 col plates (16pp)