Bøger af George Adam Smith

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1898. With portrait. The biography of scientist, evangelist, author of many books including the multimillion selling, The Greatest Thing in the World. Contents: As We Knew Him; School and College; Preparation for the Ministry; The Great Mission; Back to College; Science and Religion; Diaries of Travel-I. The Rocky Mountains; Diaries of Travel-II. East Central Africa; The Fame of Natural Law; Evolution and Revelation; 1884-1890; The Student Movement, 1884-1894; The American Colleges-1887; Australia and the Australian Colleges-1890; Diaries of Travel-III. The New Hebrides; 1891-1894; The Ascent of Man; Boys and the Boy's Brigade; and The End. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

This book was immediately recognised on its publication in 1894 as a major work of scholarship, and reached twenty-five editions during its author's lifetime. The intention of George Adam Smith (1856-1942) was to produce a work which would 'give a vision of the land as a whole' and help the reader 'to hear through it the sound of running history'. Smith, an enthusiastic alpinist, had studied divinity in Edinburgh, and first visited Palestine in 1880, travelling around the country on foot. The book was written while Smith was teaching at Glasgow, and working on various social projects in Scotland. His detailed knowledge of the territory, together with his wide familiarity with the archaeological and historical background, gives the work authority. The book places the land in its historical context, and describes the physical geography and climate; the readability of its style is enhanced by detailed maps, some in colour.

This two-volume work by the biblical scholar and geographer Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942) was first published in 1907-8. Illustrated throughout, it spans more than fourteen centuries from 1400 BCE to 70 CE. Volume 1 covers the topography, economics and politics of ancient Jerusalem.