Tent Work in Palestine a Record of Discovery And Adventure

1878. Two Volumes in One. Victorian soldier, explorer, and scholar, Claude Reignier Conder, narrates his exploits in surveying 4700 square miles of Western Palestine. Contents of Volume I: The Road to Jerusalem; Shechem and the Samaritans; The Survey of Samaria; The Great Plain of Esdraelon; The Nazareth Hills; Carmel and Acre; Sharon; Damascus, Baalbek and Hermon; Samon's Country; Bethlehem and Mar Saba; Jerusalem; and The Temple and Calvary. Contents of Volume II: Jericho; The Jordan Valley; Hebron and Beersheba; The Land of Benjamin; The Desert of Judah; The Shephelah and Philistia; Galilee; The Origin of the Fellahin; Life and Habits of the Fellahin; The Bedawin; Jews, Russians, and Germans; and The Fertility of Palestine. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.