From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (Text Only)A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymples 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

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a boy and an elephant forge an unbreakable human-animal bond that will last their entire lives

”—National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson

and spiritual assignations for a select coven of ladies

A lawyer with a pot habit and a serious mid-life crisis skirts his responsibilities

and liked playing with ghosts and matches

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‘A wonderful tale of love

and closeness to the characters that you do not want to part from them’ Annette

‘Little Lady’ he called her over the few months he groomed her

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