Lieutenant Conder led the Survey of Western Palestine from 1872 to 1875, mapping thousands of square miles with a small party of Royal Engineers. This is his personal account of the work: the road to Jerusalem, the Samaritans of Shechem, the plain of Esdraelon, the Nazareth hills, Carmel and Acre, with arguments about the walls and sites of ancient Jerusalem.
A vivid record of biblical geography and nineteenth-century Palestine, for travellers and readers of the Bible. Download the free EPUB.