Clash of eagles : America's forgotten expedition to Ottoman Palestine / Carol Lea Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Carol Lea.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Explorers.

Palestine--Description and travel.

Palestine.

Palestine--Discovery and exploration--American.

Lynch, William Francis, 1801-1865.

Lynch, William Francis.

Explorers--Palestine--Biography.

Explorers--United States--Biography.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, [2012]

Summary:

The caravan of two small boats mounted on carriages, American sailors, and a few Arabs including a dragoman and Mustafa, the cook, turned their backs on the bay at Acre and headed east, moving at the slow rhythm set by the swaying, disagreeable camels. Following what might be better described as a camel track or horse trail than a proper road, they left the coastal plain and headed into the sparsely settled low hills and valleys.

Soon they would reach the Galilee mountains, a rugged barrier between the sea on the east, and the Jordan Rift Valley, a fault line bordered on the west by high plateaus. Through the Jordan Rift Valley, often called the Ghor, flowed the Jordan River, which would lead them through lands of unknown and perhaps hostile Bedouin tribes, followed by the desolation of the Dead Sea. Their circuitous route would take them to Jerusalem, fulfilling a dream of a lifetime for Lynch and the sailors. Much was uncertain, but in Galilee, its hills tinted purple and gray at sunset, all knew that adventure lay ahead. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Arrival 1

II The Great Age of Exploration 24

III Challenges Ashore 38

IV Cross-country with Bedouin 67

V Down the Jordan 83

VI More Rapids 106

VII Pilgrims by Torchlight 117

VIII The Dead Sea 133

IX Deeper into the Sea 152

X Challenges Continue 170

XI Leaving the Dead Sea 199

XII Jerusalem Again 214.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.

ISBN:

0762778423

OCLC:

756578829

Publisher Number:

99950303569