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Glad you're staying. I like the categories. In case you're looking for recommendations, my favourite travel book is From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple. He's tracing the middle-eastern journey of a medieval monk. He meets such interesting people and gets on well with everyone, ... I've not read many yet this year (side-effect of finishing the dreaded PhD) but I've just finished From the Holy Mountain, by William Dalrymple, a fascinating account of a journey through Turkey and the Levant discovering the circumstances of the Christian remnant and the history of the church ... From The Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow Of Byzantium - William Dalrymple (read 2009) ... I think I was partially swayed by the comic counterpoint it would offer to William Dalrymple's travels in the Levant in From the Holy Mountain.) I'm currently reading William Dalrymple's From the Holy Mountain and I am now craving his books in Folio editions. They're perfect candidates for a beautiful Folio treatment! I'm travelling From the Holy Mountain with William Dalrymple, learning plenty about middle eastern Christianity and how it has fared over the years. I'm also all over the place wandering about Borges's Labyrinths. ... PhD. Woo! So now I have time to read books again! I am celebrating by finally being able to concentrate on and appreciate From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple which is his wonderful account of his travels through present-day Byzantium. I am loving it.
I'm also dipping into Borges' ... From The Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow Of Byzantium William Dalrymple (read 2009) 30. From The Holy Mountain - William Dalrymple
An intriguing and disheartening blend of travelogue and history by an accomplished Scottish writer who in the summer of 1994 set out to follow in the footsteps of John Moschus, a Byzantine monk who traveled extensively (and with great difficulty) ... 30. From The Holy Mountain - William Dalrymple
An intriguing and disheartening blend of travelogue and history by an accomplished Scottish writer who in the summer of 1994 set out to follow in the footsteps of John Moschus, a Byzantine monk who traveled extensively (and with great difficulty) ... From the Holy Mountain William Dalrymple
Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey
Red Dust Ma Jian
The Emperor Ryszard Kapuściński
London Labour and the London Poor Henry Mayhew
My Traitor's Heart Rian Malan
ET fix touchstones, with luck.
... of the Day but think The Unconsoled is worth persevering with. Also very keen on William Dalrymple, particularly From the Holy Mountain. ... and the Dewey Decimal Challenge. Great range of books you've chosen.
Suggesting a book for your travel category - From the Holy Mountain ... The Blue Fairy Book (so pretty! but has to be read at home because there's no way I'm lugging a book that big around!), From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple, an interesting but dense travelogue, and I sort of started The End of Mr Y, which has kind of sucked me in to its crazy ... 1. Travel & Adventure
From The Holy Mountain - William Dalrymple (read July 2009)
The Naked Tourist: In Search Of Adventure And Beauty In The Age Of The Airport Mall - Lawrence Osborne (read August 2009)
Hydra And The Bananas Of Leonard Cohen: A Search For Serenity In The Sun - Roger G ... Shadow Mountain by B.M. Bower. ...
Lionel Casson – Travel in the ancient world
Victoria Clark – Why angels fall
William Dalrymple – From the Holy Mountain
Patrick Leigh Fermor – Mani and Roumeli
Philip Glazebrook - De reis naar Kars
Amitav Ghosh – In an antique land
Moschus
In zijn boek over de teloorgang van het oosterse christendom, In de schaduw van Byzantium (From the holy mountain), reist William Dalrymple in de voetsporen van Johannes Moschus en zijn leerling Sophronius, twee monniken die in 587 n. Chr., aan de vooravond van de Arabische ... From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple might also be of interest. Dalrymple traveled in 1994 through the Middle East to see how the Christian communities were faring there. Chapters on Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, & Egypt. ... Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell
* The Shaping of the United Church of Christ by Louis H. Gunnemann
* From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East b William Dalrymple
* The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right by Robert Lanham I like Travels with a Tangerine too, and can't wait to read the rest. Probably me favourite is William Dalrymple's From the Holy Mountain, with a simliar kind of theme to Tangerine but this time following a couple of Late Antiquity monks through the vanished world of the Christian Middle Eas ...
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