The Land and the Book: Volume 2

William McClure Thomson

Jan 1860 · Harper & brothers

Ratings and reviews

This book is a Christian classic, well worth the read of any serious scholar of the Bible, or for anyone who has an interest in reading the adventures of what it was like to travel as an explorer through the land of Israel in the 1800s when robbers and murderers abounded as well as ferocious animals. As I read when investigating this book it is quote - Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred depictions of archaeological sites, artifacts and inscriptions, Near Eastern flora and fauna, as well as images and descriptions of indigenous cultural manners and customs. Its style is simple, straightforward, and compelling, and the work is organized as a kind of narrated travelogue or journal, with intermixed devotional reflections, archaeological insight, and ethnographic notes. - end quote.

A wonderful description of the Land of Israel in the mid 1800's. It is a reaffirmation following the work of Mark Twain "The Innocents Abroad" of the condition of the country at the time, how barren and desolate it was prior to the advent of the return of the Jews to their land.