William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and in 2002 was awarded the Mungo Park Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his ‘outstanding contribution to travel literature’. He wrote and presented the TV series ‘Stones of the Raj’ and ‘Indian Journeys’, which won BAFTA’s 2002 Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series. He and his wife, artist Olivia Fraser, have three children, and divide their time between London and Delhi.
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East (Owl: Holt. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8050-6177-2. pap. $18) tells of author William Dalrymple's trek in the footsteps of two sixth-century Byzantine monks: John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist. In recounting his travels through Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and other former territories of the Byzantine empire, Dalrymple mixes history and adventure writing. His exotic adventures continue in In Xanadu: A Quest (Lonely Planet. 2000. ISBN 978-1-86450-173-5. pap. $14.95), as Dalrymple retraces Marco Polo's journey from Jerusalem to China's ancient city of Xanadu. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
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