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A Jerusalem Anthology - Travel Writing Through the Centuries (Hardcover)
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A Jerusalem Anthology - Travel Writing Through the Centuries (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
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Jerusalem has a special status as a city that is both terrestrial
and celestial. The name includes a cognate for 'peace, ' but the
old stones of the city have witnessed epic bloodshed and
destruction over the centuries. The three great monotheistic
religions all regard it with especial fervor, and it has for at
least two millennia attracted pilgrims intent on seeing it before
they die. This rich and compelling anthology of travelers' writings
attempts to convey something of the diverse experiences of visitors
to this most complex and enigmatic of cities. A Jerusalem Anthology
takes us on a journey through a city, not just of illusion and
powerful accumulated religious emotion, but of colors, lights,
smells, and sounds, an inhabited city as it was directly
experienced and lived in through the ages. Memoirs of visitors such
as as sixth-century AD pilgrim Saint Silvia of Bordeaux, medieval
Jerusalemite al-Muqaddasi, Grand Tour voyagers Gustave Flaubert and
Alexander Kinglake, the humorous Mark Twain, or the cynical T.E.
Lawrence provide vivid and sometimes disturbing vignettes of the
Holy City at very different times in its tumultuous history.
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