1906 Palestine and Syria Handbook for Travellers

Description

Colour Plates, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A fourth edition guide to Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia. 

This handbook guide the traveller through the Middle East, with notes on hotels, transport, money, equipment and with commentary on the history, language and geography. 

With the rare slip bound to the title page that states "The excessive zeal of the Turkish censorship sometimes even extends to the confiscation of guide-books. The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port".

With twenty maps, fifty two plans and a panorama of Jerusalem.
Collated, complete.