This is the original guidebook to the cradle of civilization, the land of deep history and radically mixed tribes that has become the modern Middle East. Groundbreaking publisher Karl Baedeker introduced the world to travel as we know it, although the routines have changed since, 'Historical Palestine' advises that: From Baghdad to Babylon the distance is about 53 miles, and is accomplished by carriage with four mules, with three relays, in 8-10 hours. This beautiful facsimile edition of his rare, enchanting book walks readers through the land we now know as Israel, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq as generations past saw it. Visit enduring ruins and teeming cities from Jerusalem to Damascus and Beirut to Baghdad by roads long ago swept back into the desert. Find temples, mosques, and souks as they were - and find, perhaps, the seeds of contemporary conflict. It includes more than seventy-five original maps, several of which fold out from its pages.
- ISBN10 0781811163
- ISBN13 9780781811163
- Publish Date 30 November 2005 (first published 27 June 1985)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 565
- Language English