THE LAND AND THE BOOK: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land
By W. M. Thomson, D.D.
Published by T. Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh and New York, 1887.
Hardcover in the publisher’s original gilt- and black-decorated brown cloth.
Illustrated throughout, with plates, numerous illustrations in the text and the original folding map.
A richly illustrated account of the Holy Land, combining travel, geography, local customs and observations from Thomson’s thirty years as a missionary in Syria and Palestine. The work uses the landscapes and everyday life of the region to illuminate places, practices and passages described in the Bible.
William McClure Thomson (1806–1894) was an American Protestant missionary who spent several decades in the Middle East. His extensive travels and firsthand observations formed the basis of The Land and the Book, one of the nineteenth century’s most influential illustrated of the Holy Land.