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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2013
      19 January 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139162364
      9781108042062
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139162364
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 456 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
      Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Historical Geography, Middle East History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
    Subjects:
    Social and Cultural Anthropology, Geography, Historical Geography, Middle East History
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    Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram (1822–1906), an early supporter of Darwin, became both a Fellow of the Royal Society and Canon Residentiary of Durham. His literary career began with an account of his ventures into the desert of Algeria, where he had journeyed seeking a salubrious winter climate. This 1873 volume, one of his many popular works on the Biblical Lands, records his adventures and discoveries east of the Dead Sea. Its engaging narrative recounts the hazards and vexations of travel amongst the local tribes, as well as the sites Tristram visited, many of them biblical (with corresponding quotations from scripture), and many previously unvisited by Europeans. (Tristram's The Fauna and Flora of Palestine was subsequently published by the Palestine Exploration Fund and laid the foundations of systematic biological research in Palestine.) This book thus illuminates the complex interactions between religion, archaeology, and the natural sciences in the period.

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