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282 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, \"At the end of the eighteenth century, in the wake of Napoleon's disastrous invasion, Palestine was seen by the West as a barren and neglected country in need of Western enterprise--a belief that led to the greatest rush to the Holy Land since the Crusades. Naomi Shepherd's account of how the West rediscovered Palestine illuminates the fantasies and the figures: There were the explorers like Seetzen and Burckhardt, using Palestine to train for Arabia, who found the sites of antiquity at the height of classical revival. There were scholars like Robinson and Tristram, who struggled to match scriptural truth with scientific progress, and painters like Holman Hunt who tried to portray it. There were the Western consuls, rulers by proxy, who were exploited by their protégés and compromised by their colonists. There were the tourists led by Thomas Cook, who suffered like penitential pilgrims without their compensations. Antiquarians seeking evidence of a colossal Jewish antiquity found the ambiguous remains of several cultures, and the great archaeologist Clermont Ganneau was hounded out of Palestine by his rivals. Finally, there were the

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Author

Shepherd, Naomi

Publisher

San Francisco : Harper & Row

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060672713

Category

history

Subjects

Language Learning, Political Science, Travel

Rating

4 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14