The Land of Moab: Travels and Discoveries on the East Side of the Dead Sea and the Jordan (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor) - Softcover

Tristram, Henry Baker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108042066 ISBN 13: 9781108042062

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram (1822-1906), an early supporter of Darwin, became both a Fellow of the Royal Society and Canon Residentiary of Durham. His literary career began with an account of his ventures into the desert of Algeria, where he had journeyed seeking a salubrious winter climate. This 1873 volume, one of his many popular works on the Biblical Lands, records his adventures and discoveries east of the Dead Sea. Its engaging narrative recounts the hazards and vexations of travel amongst the local tribes, as well as the sites Tristram visited, many of them biblical (with corresponding quotations from scripture), and many previously unvisited by Europeans. (Tristram's The Fauna and Flora of Palestine was subsequently published by the Palestine Exploration Fund and laid the foundations of systematic biological research in Palestine.) This book thus illuminates the complex interactions between religion, archaeology, and the natural sciences in the period.

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Book Description:

Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram, an early supporter of Darwin, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and Canon Residentiary of Durham. This 1873 account, one of his many popular works on the Biblical Lands, records his discoveries, in both archaeology and natural science, east of the Dead Sea.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1108042066
• ISBN 13: 9781108042062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456