The Flowers and Fruits of the Bible [Hardcover]

John Chancellor (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Beaufort Books (May 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825300851
• ISBN-13: 978-0825300851
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,689,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful supplement for your Bible reading!, April 3, 2003

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M. Mcclain "mmcbs" (Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Flowers and Fruits of the Bible (Hardcover)

This collection of remarkable 19th Century watercolors depicts the best known flowers and fruits mentioned in the Bible. The exquisite and decorative work of Victorian piety, showing a love both of flowers and of the Scriptures, was complied by an army colonel who had experienced the heat of battle in the scorching Egyption sun. After a day's fighting, Lieutenant Colonel William McCheane returned to his tent and turned to his Bible and his watercolors. Despite the proximity of the Holy Land, he never went there, and he took as models for his drawings English garden plants with which he was familiar. This gives his drawings, which have never been published, a special charm. John Chancellor's scholarly and informative text considers botanical aspects as well as the symbolism and mythology of the plants, and detailed references are included which list the flowers and fruits mentioned in the Bible with scriptural references.