The Land of Moab
Travels and Discoveries on the East Side of the Dead Sea and the Jordan

Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram's 1873 work recounts his discoveries, in archaeology and natural science, east of the Dead Sea.

Henry Baker Tristram (Author)

9781108042062, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 January 2012

456 pages, 39 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 kg

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.

Preface
1. View of the mountains of Moab from Jerusalem
2. Route from Hebron to Engedi
3. An early start
4. From the Sáfieh to Kerak
5. Kerak
6. Excursion to the south of Kerak
7. From Rabba to the Arnon
8. From Dibon eastward
9. Return from the Wady Na'ur to Um Rasas
10. Departure from Um Rasas
11. The Palace of Mashita
12. Second visit to Mashita
13. Change from the highlands
14. Visit to Machaerus
15. Visit to Zara, the ancient Zareth-Shahar
16. Departure from Callirrhoe
17. The north-west corner of Moab
18. The Wady Heshban
Chapter on the Persian Palace of Mashita James Ferguson
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]