Eminent travel writer and scholar, Dalrymple takes us through thousands of years of religious and cultural history, on the ground, visiting and commenting on what is left of the past, examining eastern Christianity. It is a journey spiced with anecdotes, reminiscences and sympathetic conversations with monks to taxi-drivers, - touching and tragic - which illuminates not only religious conflicts of the past but those of the present. For desert lovers a must.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 28 February 2005 ) |
