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Isabel Burton (1875): The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal. Carne, John (1826): Letters from the East: Written During a Recent Tour Through Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, Syria, and Greece. Vol.1; Vol.2. Charles, Elizabeth (1862): Wanderings over Bible lands and seas. By the author of the ...
Pilgrimage of Sæwulf to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. In PPTS IV.2 and Thomas Wright's Early Travels in Palestine (1848). [35] Erik I of Denmark. Erik I of Denmark (c. 1060 – 1103) and his wife Boedil Thurgotsdatter were the first monarchs to attempt to travel to Jerusalem following the First Crusade, beginning their journey in 1103.
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.
Commemorative sculpture of the meeting between Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem. The list of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI details the travels of the first pope to leave Italy since 1809, [1] [2] representing the first ever papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land [3] and the first papal visit to Africa, Asia, North America, Oceania, and South America.
This monastery was probably near Chernihiv in Ukraine, in the Land of Chernihivshchyna. [6] Daniel's narratives begin at Constantinople. [7] He began his travels in the early 12th century and was likely in Constantinople around 1106 to 1108. [3] [6] [7] [8] Daniel stayed in the Jerusalem area for over a year and took various trips around ...
The Pilgrimage of Johannes Phocas in the Holy Land. Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. (1890): Description of the Holy Land by John of Würzburg (1160–1170) (1890): The Epitome of S. Eucherius about certain Holy Places (ca. A.D. 440) and the Breviary or short description of Jerusalem (ca. A.D. 530) Antoninus of Piacenza (1890).
[1] It recounts the writer's journey throughout the Roman Empire to the Holy Land in 333 and 334 [2] as he travelled by land through northern Italy and the Danube valley to Constantinople; then through the provinces of Asia and Syria to Jerusalem in the province of Syria-Palaestina; and then back by way of Macedonia, Otranto, Rome, and Milan.
The book is probably the first published account of the Near East by a Czech traveller. A 1606 engraving of an Egyptian mongoose by Jan Willenberg. Kryštof Harant z Polžic a Bezdružic (1564–1621) was a renaissance man with a broad range of interests. In 1598 he went as a pilgrim to the Holy Land, returning at the beginning of the next year.