Author: Joseph Inskeep TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Gyre Thro' the Orient
Author: Joseph Inskeep TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Gyre Thro' the Orient
Author: Republican Book and Job Printing OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9780461982398
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
To See A Promised Land
Author: Lester I. VogelPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271040943
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
To See A Promised Land explores the fascination that Americans historically have had with the land of the Bible. By focusing on the period before World War I, Lester Vogel uncovers the various ways in which Americans (primarily Protestants) typically thought about and knew the Holy Land prior to the land's politicization and embroilment in the conflict between Arab and Jewish national interests. During this period, there were literally hundreds of popular books, pamphlets, and articles about the Holy Land available to American readers. Although most Americans never visited the Middle East, they nevertheless had distinct images of what the land was like through these writings, their churches, and their own reading of the Bible. On the very day of his assassination in 1865, even President Lincoln contemplated a tour of the Holy Land at the end of his term in office. Americans who did travel to the Middle East took with them preconceptions and brought back with them descriptions that, in turn, helped to reshape continually the popular image of the Holy Land. One of the most celebrated journeys to the East was the 1867 "Quaker City Tour," immortalized by Mark Twain in his Innocents Abroad. Vogel suggests that this unique relationship between Americans and a foreign land might be seen as an expression of "geopiety," a term coined by the geographer John Kirtland Wright to describe a certain mixture of place, past, and faith. To See A Promised Land draws upon a wide variety of written accounts--those of American travelers (from Twain to Theodore Roosevelt), missionaries, settlers and colonists, explorers, archaeologists, biblical scholars, and diplomats and officials--in order to shed light on this fascinating aspect of American thought and character.
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress, from Dec. 1, ... to Dec. 1, ...
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Catalogue of books added to the Library of Congress
Author: Washington D.C., libr. of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Catalog, 1868Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress (Washington, DC)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Heart of the Orient
Author: Michael Myers ShoemakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress, from December 1, 1868, to December 1, 1869
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description