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By Haim Goren,Bruno Schelhaas,Jutta Faehndrich

Mapping the Holy Land offers a special examine of the cartography of the Holy Land in the course of the formative interval of its improvement. via an in depth examine of the paintings of 3 of the major figures of the period - Augustus Petermann, actual Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the best map of the quarter on the time; and Edward Robinson, founding father of sleek Palestinology – the authors discover the advanced cultural, cartographic and technical methods that formed and decided the ensuing maps of the quarter. Making complete use of newly chanced on archival fabric, and richly illustrated in either color and black and white, Mapping the Holy Land is vital examining for cartographers, old geographers, historians of mapmaking, and for all people with an curiosity within the Holy Land and the background of Palestine.

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