The Dancing Sun: Journeys to the Miracle Shrines - Hardcover

Seward, Desmond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333574400 ISBN 13: 9780333574409

Publisher: Macmillan, 1993

Synopsis

This travel book tells how Desmond Seward, initially sceptical, made a seven-fold pilgrimage to European shrines where the sun has danced in recent years. It led him to Medjugorje in Herzegovina, Svata Hora in Bohemia, Czestechowa in Poland, Fatima in Portugal and Walsingham in England. Witnessed by millions, the Virgin has appeared at most of them, foretelling the collapse of Marxism, but also warning of other disasters (such as Chernobyl) which threaten to overwhelm the world as the second millenium approaches - unless mankind returns to faith. By the author of a comparative biography of Napoleon and Hitler and "The Monks of War".

About this title

Review:

‘What a good book this makes. It is honest, well informed and beautifully written.’
Evening Standard 

‘A travelogue-cum-autobiography which is both tender and honest. Whether you believe him is irrelevant to the pleasure his book will give.’
Daily Telegraph

‘Seward’s style is an attractive mixture of reportage and travel writing. If he convinces, it is by the velvet elegance of his prose and by his evident sincerity.’ 
Literary Review  

“Desmond Seward’s delightful account... Whether you believe him is frankly irrelevant to the pleasure his book will give.”
Weekend Telegraph

About the Author:

Desmond Seward is best known for The Monks of War (1972), The Wars of the Roses (1995) – both republished by the Folio Society – and A Brief History of the Hundred Years War that has stayed in print in Britain and the United States since its publication in 1978. However, his own favourites among his books are Old Puglia: A Portrait of South Eastern Italy (with Susan Mountgarret, 2009) and Wings over the Desert (2009), an account of his father's experiences as an RFC pilot in Palestine during the First World War. He was born in 1935 in Paris where his father was managing director of Timken Français, into a family of Anglo-Irish origin that had been wine-merchants at Bordeaux since the 1870s (a background that instilled a lasting love of France) and educated at Ampleforth and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge as an Exhibitioner in History. Unfashionably, harking back to Gibbon and Macaulay, he believes that history is literature - that readability and accessibility are of vital importance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0333574400
• ISBN 13: 9780333574409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256