בידספיריט | ספר: The Land and the Book:

ספר: The Land and the Book: Southern Palestine and Jerusalem by William Thomson, 1881 -  The Land and The Book; or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from The Manners and Customs, The Scenes and Scenery, of The Holy Land. Southern Palestine and Jerusalem [1881] 140 Illustrations and maps;  William McClure Thomson (31 December 1806, in Springdale, Ohio - 8 April 1894, in Denver, Colorado) was an American Protestant missionary who worked in Ottoman Syria. After spending 25 years in Syria, he published a bestselling book that described his experiences and observations during his travels. He used his knowledge of the region to illustrate and explain passages from the Bible, giving readers a new perspective on the scriptures. His local nickname became Abu Tangera-father of the cooking pot-after his broad-rimmed hat. With his local knowledge, he was used as a dragoman by several Biblical scholars. In 1852, he accompanied one of the founders of modern Biblical archeology, Edward Robinson on his second tour of the Holy Land. In 1859, Thomson published a book entitled ”The Land and the Book, ” which described his experiences in the Middle East. The book was aimed at a general audience rather than an academic or theological one, and it quickly became very popular. In the United States, it was only outsold by ”Uncle Tom's Cabin, ” an abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, over the following forty years. hardcover - spine damaged 592 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill., maps. fair condition