{"product_id":"mapping-the-holy-land-an-illustrated-atlas","title":"Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA stunning journey through the Holy Land, as told by the rare maps and prints that have long inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the current war between Israel and Hamas, mapping the Holy Land has been a never-ending source of high aspirations and bitter conflict. Sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, the Holy Land has always inspired Christians to walk in the footsteps of the Bible, to imagine the route of the Exodus, or discover the places of Jesus' ministry. Muslims, too, longed to see the geographical contours of the ummah, the greater Muslim community, while Jews remembered the days when Jerusalem was the destination for three holy festivals. In response, cartographers from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age drew their inspiration from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages to depict, with growing confidence, the exotic locations of the Holy Land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMapping the Holy Land\u003c\/span\u003e is the first book to tell the thrilling story of these travels and the incredible prints and maps they spawned, up to the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Illustrated with rare, hand-colored maps and engravings throughout and riveting scene-setting history, this remarkable volume from rare maps collector Neal Asbury, CEO of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Legacy Companies\u003c\/span\u003e and host of Neal Asbury's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMade in America\u003c\/span\u003e, and National Geographic best-selling author Jean-Pierre Isbouts, coauthors of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMapping America\u003c\/span\u003e, shows how the faithful overcame impossible odds to reach the Holy Land, and dives deep into the historical understanding of these elusive lands from Roman times up to the modern Israeli-Arab conflict.","brand":"Apollo Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42888149598288,"sku":"9781954641341B","price":13.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781954641341-l.jpg?v=1788302979","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/mapping-the-holy-land-an-illustrated-atlas","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}