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Title Page

The Land an the Book; or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of THE HOLY LAND [more...] [$]

Nazareth

Here we see a small Palestinian town with its white flat-roofed buildings, domes, and a mosque’s tower or minaret, nestled together amongst the hills. [more...] [$]

Cedars of Lebanon

A group of camels and some humans are at the edge of a forest of mighty cedar trees; in the far distance are some snow-capped mountains. [$]

Samaria

The site of this celebrated capital is delightful, by universal consent. It is a very large isolated hill, rising by successive terraces at least six hundred feet above the valleys which surround it. In shape it is oval, and the smaller and lower end unites it to the neighboring mountain on the east. There is no fountain on the hill, and during a siege the inhabitants must have depended entirely upon cisterns. Water, however, is abundant in the neighborhood. There is a good spring a short distance below [...] [more...] [$]

Front Cover

Thomson’s “The Land and the Book” is bound, in this edition, in an earthy green buckram with gold lettering on the front cover and spine, on a black printed background. [more...] [$]