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Aaronsohn's maps : the untold story of the man who might have created peace in the Middle East / Patricia Goldstone.
Van Pelt Library DS125.3.A32 G65 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstone, Patricia, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aaronsohn, Aaron, 1876-1919.
- Aaronsohn, Aaron.
- Jews--Palestine--Biography.
- Jews.
- NILI (Organization : Palestine).
- World War, 1914-1918--Military intelligence--Palestine.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Military intelligence--Great Britain.
- Zionism--Palestine--History.
- Zionism.
- History.
- Palestine--History--1799-1917.
- Palestine.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando : Harcourt, [2007]
- Summary:
- Scientist, diplomat, and spy, Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jews, as revealed in this new biography by the author of "Making the World Safe for Tourism."
- Contents:
- The Jew in the bathchair
- The spies of Moses
- Flying the Zionist kite in America
- Minuet
- The locust hunter
- Felix Krull, confidence man
- He who writes the dispatches
- "Our people"
- The sacrifice
- Icarus falls from the sky
- Inconvenient heroes
- Aaronsohn's roadmap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-335) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780151011698
- 0151011699
- OCLC:
- 80460578
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