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Sacred Sites: Christian Perspectives on the Holy Land

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This is a nicely edited and easy to carry book. Combines scripture quotes, whole episodes, with historical analyses, comments from today's perspective that are mighty interesting to the traveller, and some b&w pictures. The book is written in a friendly, helpful tone, of a man that has been a tour guide to the Holy Land for years. This is a great pro: Christians will sure appreciate the tone of respect and veneration for these places described by the author. It is not the kind of book one can so often get from the secular perspective. On the other hand it is overtly Catholic.

There are a few historical maps, nothing grand, but for the price it's ok. Since I'm not a Catholic I couldn't help but wonder what those places would look like where there no churches to obstruct the imagination. I would just have left them empty as they were, but protected, of course.

One more thing. The pictures are nice but few, and some are even repeated. The book is ok, but I think the author could have done much better; he could have told a lot of interesting anecdotes and detail that travelers are so anxious to hear. It's good for the price, though.