A WINTER PILGRIMAGE, Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, accomplished in the Year 1900

by H. Rider Haggard

Overview

In this book, Haggard describes his visits to Florence, Pompeii, Naples, Cyprus, Syeria, Palestine and closes his trip at Jerusalem.

A large portion of this volume which is devoted to Cyprus which takes up about a third of the 355 pages and is perhaps the most noteworthy, as dealing with a region that was comparatively little known and little written about at the time of this book's publication. Considerable attention is paid to the condition of the island, that at the time, was under English rule.

Haggard has an eye for the things that interest, and his book is entertaining.

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CONTENTS

Chapter I - Milan Cathedral
Chapter II - A Tuscan Wine-Farm
Chapter III - Fiesole and Florence
Chapter IV - Pompeii
Chapter V - Naples to Larnaca
Chapter VI - Colossi
Chapter VII - A Cypriote Wedding
Chapter VIII - Amathus
Chapter IX - Curium
Chapter X - Limasol to Acheritou
Chapter XI - Famagusta
Chapter XII - The Siege and Salamis
Chapter XIII - Nicosia And Kyrenia
Chapter XIV - Beyrout, Tyre, and Sidon
Chapter XV - Nazareth and Tiberias
Chapter XVI - The Sea of Galilee
Chapter XVII - Tabor, Carmel, and Acre
Chapter XVIII - Jaffa
Chapter XIX - The Noble Sanctuary, The Pools of Solomon and Bethlehem
Chapter XX - Jericho, The Dead Sea, Bethany, And Solomon's Quarries
Chapter XXI - Gordon's Tomb and Golgotha
Chapter XXII - The Church of the Sepulchre
Chapter XXIII - The Mount of Olives and the Wailing of the Jews


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Cathedral of St. Sophia, Famagusta
Tombstone of the Cardinal Leonardo Buonafede
Brass Lamp-Holder from the Chapel of the Family Luperelli-Pitti in Cortona
Curtain Wall, Famagusta
Tower of Colossi
Cyprian Farriers
Cyprian Boot-Shop
On Trooidos
Wall of New Reservoir, Acheritou
Ancient Sluice Gate at Acheritou
Desdemona's Tower, Famagusta
Ruins of Ancient Church, Famagusta
St. Hilarion
Monastery of Bella Pais
Heights of Hilarion
Venetian Fortress, Kyrenia
Door of St. Nicholas, Nicosia
Our Cavalcade
Mary's Well, Nazareth
Boat on the Sea of Galilee
Site of Capernaum
Mount Tabor
Roman Catholic Convent with Ruins on Mount Tabor
Shepherd Carrying a Lost Sheep
The River Jordan
Site of the Temple of the Jews
Interior of the Noble Sanctuary, showing the Sacred Rock
The Golden Gate
View on the Road to Jericho
The only House by the Dead Sea
The Place of Stoning

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015928457
Publisher:	OGB
Publication date:	10/29/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English author of adventure novels set in exotic locales, predominantly Africa. King Solomon’s Mines, one of his best-known books, details the life of the explorer Allan Quartermain. She: A History of Adventure followed, introducing the character Ayesha. While much of Haggard’s reputation stems from those two books and their subsequent series, he also wrote nonfiction and short stories.