Pictures from The Land an the Book; or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of The Holy Land, by W. M. Thomson, D.D., 1894.
When i saw this book in an antique furniture shop in Kingston, Ontario, sitting along on a shelf, i had to adopt it; it’s a very satisfactory physical object.
Title: The Land and the Book
Published by: T. Nelson and Sons
City: London, Edinburgh and New York
Date: 1894
Total items: 5
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
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...]
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.
[$]Pictures from The Land an the Book; or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of The Holy Land, by W. M. Thomson, D.D., 1894.
When i saw this book in an antique furniture shop in Kingston, Ontario, sitting along on a shelf, i had to adopt it; it’s a very satisfactory physical object.
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