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Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram's 1873 work recounts his discoveries, in archaeology and natural science, east of the Dead Sea.

bTitle:/b Scenes in he East. Consisting of twelve coloured photographic views of places mentioned in the Bible, with descriptive letter-press.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, pate...

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Tristram was among the earliest scholars to attempt a documentation of the physical landscape of the Holy Land. This study describes the geography, geology, meteorology, zoology, and botany of the land of the Bible, as experienced in the nineteenth century.

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In Bible Places, H. B. Tristram aimed to provide a brief yet very informative description of every Holy Land site mentioned in the Bible. Tristram intended this book for a popular audience, especially "such as have neither time nor opportunity to refer to larger treatises on the geography of Palestine." Relying on the extensive research of the Palestinian Exploration Fund, Tristram's work afforded many a new and vividly descriptive perspective...

Excerpt from Rambles in Japan: The Land of the Rising Sun AN apology may reasonably be expected for another book on Japan by one who has been a mere visitor, not a resident. The following pages are for the most part a transcript of the author's daily journal, written without any view to publication. But when, shortly after his visit, the eyes of the whole world were suddenly fixed upon the Land of the Rising Sun, and its unexpected display of...

Excerpt from The Survey of Western Palestine, 1884: The Fauna and Flora of Palestine From this analysis it is evident that the herpetological fauna presents fewer anomalies than the other classes. But snakes, in particular, are more limited to the original locality of the individual. In these cases the agencies are wanting by which a species is rapidly spread over a larger portion of the globe in course of time, thus becoming mixed with forei...

Excerpt from Bible Places, or the Topography of the Holy Land: A Succinct Account of All the Places, Rivers, and Mountains of the Land of Israel, Mentioned in the Bible, So Far as They Have Been Identified: Together With Their Modern Names and Historical References Thus, step by step, is modern research setting forth more and more distinctly the minute accuracy of God's W'ord in matters of detail, and shedding light upon the framework in whic...

Excerpt from The Land of Moab: Travels and Discoveries on the East Side of the Dead Sea and the Jordan One of our party is now beyond the reach of my thanks - William Amherst Hayne, of saintly memory, suddenly, within the last few days, removed, at what seemed to be the dawn of a career of rare promise. He lived in his Bible, and clung to its promises, and now in a foreign land his body rests, awaiting in Christ a glorious resurrection. Abou...

Excerpt from Scenes in the East: Consisting of Twelve Coloured Photographic Views of Places Mentioned in the Bible, With Descriptive Letter-Press "Little among the thousands of Judah, " Bethlehem has never claimed pre-eminence from its position, its buildings, or its wealth. Like many other spots of hallowed or ennobled memory, it owes its fame to its history and its associations alone. No rugged mountain towering to the skies, no deep romant...

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Excerpt from The Seven Golden Candlesticks Greeks of the internal weakness of Persia, we find the coast line of Asia Minor again the theatre of important events. From the conclusion of the Peloponnesian war, when Asia Minor fell again under the power of Persia, the historian loses sight of the history of its cities, till they successively yielded to the Macedonian conqueror, becoming, for the most part, no very reluctant subjects. Long unaccu...