This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...produced by the she-bears, as the terrified little people fled back shrieking to the city gate, must have been very dreadful. It would have been quite enough if he had merely turned back and looked on them. It was up this very hill that the two spies must have crept in the dark after they had escaped from Jericho. They ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...produced by the she-bears, as the terrified little people fled back shrieking to the city gate, must have been very dreadful. It would have been quite enough if he had merely turned back and looked on them. It was up this very hill that the two spies must have crept in the dark after they had escaped from Jericho. They got away from the city by means of a rope that dropped from Rahab's window into the moat at the foot of the city wall. It was in these very mountains that they hid themselves for three days, while the town guard, after having carefully shut the gate, were fatuously pursuing them towards the ford of the Jordan. From their cave on the hill the spies, lolling at ease, must have seen the perspiring soldiers stumbling over the plain, now rushing forwards and now creeping on tiptoe with uplifted swords towards a bush, then surrounding the bush and finally clubbing it with frightful blows. They must have laughed till they were tired to see the gesticulations of the befogged pursuers, the pointing this way and that, the occasional crawling on the ground, and the constant mopping of puzzled brows. The spies must have seen them also hobble back to the city in the evening, limp with fatigue, and may have imagined the kind of lies they were telling, with such graphic gestures, to the folk who met them at the gate. It is just by the fountain that ancient Jericho was situated. The site is most commanding. It can be well understood that' the situation of this city is pleasant, ' for with its lavish supply of water it must have sparkled with fountains and pools and have been surrounded by a very Garden of God, together with fields full of corn and hemp, and meadows green with luscious pasture. It was a walled city of some size, a royal city, a military garris..
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Good+ unmarked. An Account of a Tour in Palestine. With 43 illustrations from photos by the author; the original fold-out map at rear is missing. Nice clean tight copy. 5-3/4 x 9, 286 pp, index, b/w photos.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Book. Octavo; First edition 1912, Reprinted 1928; G-; Hardcover; Spine, red with gold print; Boards in red cloth with gold print, wear to spine caps and corners, toning to spine, else clean and strong; Text block has spotting to edges, foxing to endpapers, note in pencil on front flyleaf, occasional foxing within, some pages uncut, else clean and tight; viii, 287 pages, frontispiece, illustrated "with forty-three illustrations from photographs [b&w] by the author and a map [folded at rear]". 1344257. FP New Rockville Stock.
