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Tourists, Travellers and Hotels in 19th-Century Jerusalem: On Mark Twain and Charles Warren at the Mediterranean Hotel
Tourists Travellers and Hotels in 19thCentury Jerusalem On Mark Twain and Charles Warren at the Mediterranean Hotel Author:Rupert L. Chapman III, Shimon Gibson, Yoni Shapira This volume is a study of the rise of tourism in the Holy Land, focused on the study of a particular hotel, the Mediterranean, for which the surviving evidence is particularly good. The study draws extensively on the archives, both documentary and photographic, of the Palestine Exploration Fund, as well as on its excellent collection of nineteen... more »th-century travel books. Chapters include an introduction to the tourists and pilgrims who visited Jerusalem in the nineteenth century, including the various explorers connected with the PEF; an introduction to the various hotels and hostels which can be identified in the literature of the period; the first two locations of the Mediterranean Hotel; Mark Twain and Freemasonry in Jerusalem, drawing on Twain?s letters as well as the archives of the PEF; Charles Warren and the PEF Explorations in the city; the later life of the building which formed the second location of the Mediterranean Hotel, taking this down to the present day; and the third location of the Mediterranean Hotel, used by Conder, Kitchener, and the Survey of Western Palestine party.« less