CARPENTER’S
WORLD TRAVELS
Familiar Talks About Countries
and Peoples
WITH THE AUTHOR ON THE SPOT AND
THE READER IN HIS HOME, BASED
ON THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
MILES OF TRAVEL
OVER THE GLOBE
CHRISTIANS RULE THE LAND OF CHRIST
Seven hundred years of Moslem supremacy in the Holy Land endedwith General Allenby’s modest entrance into Jerusalem. Then arose thecry. “The day of deliverance is come.”
CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS
THE HOLY LAND
AND SYRIA
BY
FRANK G. CARPENTER
LITT.D., F.R.G.S.
NINETY-SIX PAGES OF
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
AND TWO MAPS IN COLOUR
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1923
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
FRANK G. CARPENTER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS. GARDEN CITY. N. Y.
In the publication of this volume on the Holy Landand Syria, I wish to thank the Secretary of State forletters which have given me the assistance of ourofficial representatives in the countries visited. I alsothank our Secretary of Agriculture and our Secretary ofLabour for appointing me an Honorary Commissioner oftheir Departments in foreign lands. Their credentialshave been of the greatest value, making accessible tome sources of information seldom opened to the ordinarytraveller.
I wish to acknowledge also the valuable assistanceand coöperation rendered by Mr. Dudley Harmon, myeditor, and Miss Josephine Lehmann in the revision ofthe notes dictated or penned by me on the ground.
While most of the illustrations are from my own negatives,there are certain photographs which have beensupplied by the Near East Relief, the Red Cross, thePublishers’ Photo Service, and the Zionist Organizationof America, all of which are protected by copyright.
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