Sinai: The Great and Terrible Wilderness
by Bernstein, Burton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670348376
- ISBN 13
- 9780670348374
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Viking Books, 1979. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. This isolated, strategic, and very beautiful triangle of land poised between Africa and Asia - an ancient and modern battlefield, holy ground of three world religions, new focus for oil fields and diplomacy - was in biblical times "that great and terrible wilderness," and still today the Sinai's harsh mountains and unforgiving desert remain a mystery. Burton Bernstein took four trips through the Sinai, and in this eye-opening report on its past and present we experience with him the discovery of its people and places: the wandering Bedouins for whom the Sinai is home, the Israelis who governed it between the Six-Day War and the peace treaty of 1979, the Greek Orthodox monks who preside over the treasures of St. Catherine's Monastery, the cheerful Texans who have manned the early-warning listening posts of the Sinai Field Mission. Mr. Bernstein's historical, cultural, and sociological reportage, and his up-to-the-minute accounts of the Sinai's political status vis-ÃÂ -vis Egypt and Israel, reveal why it has been so bitterly contested through five millennia of history.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010026332
- Title
- Sinai: The Great and Terrible Wilderness
- Author
- Bernstein, Burton
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670348376
- ISBN 13
- 9780670348374
- Publisher
- Viking Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- LCCN
- 79012794
- X weight
- 22 oz
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