Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Atlas

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A stunning journey through the Holy Land, as told by the rare maps and prints that have long inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages.

How have people imagined the Holy Land, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the Modern Era While Judaism and Islam sunk roots and flourished in the territory of their founders, Christianity came of age in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire. Ever since, Christians have yearned to walk in the footsteps of the Bible, to imagine the route of the Exodus or the places of Jesus's ministry. Muslims, too, longed to see the geographical contours of the ummah, the greater Muslim community. 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.

Mapping the Holy Land is the first book to tell the thrilling story of these pilgrimages and the incredible prints and maps that their travels spawned. 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 The Legacy Companies and host of Neal Asburys Made in America, 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 nineteenth century era of Ottoman Palestine.

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Praise for Mapping America

Antiquarian maps from the 1400s onward reveal historical Western notions of geography and image reproduction, central in the founding of this country. New York Times

A fresh, well-informed addition to the literature devoted to early American history. Kirkus Reviews

The continents reveal themselves slowly in wild and vividly flamboyant illustrations that resonate like the creation of literary fantasy. The Bowery Boys

Author Bio

Neal Asbury is a global entrepreneur, CEO of The Legacy Companies, and the host of the nationally syndicated weekly radio talk show Neal Asburys Made in America, produced by Radio America. He is the coauthor of Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States and the author of Conscientious Equity: An American Entrepreneurs Solutions to the Worlds Greatest Problems. Asbury has received the Presidents E-Star Export Award and the Export Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce and was the 2008 recipient of the United States National Champion Exporter of the Year Award. A frequent guest on CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and BBC, he has published more than two hundred articles on global trade issues. Asbury lives in Weston, Florida.

Jean-Pierre Isbouts is a historian, professor emeritus at Fielding Graduate University, and the author or coauthor of multiple books, including Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States, The Da Vinci Legacy, The Dal Legacy, National Geographics The Ultimate Visual History of the World, The Biblical World, and In the Footsteps of Jesus, which together have sold over two million copies. Dr. Isbouts has been on numerous radio and TV shows and is the host of several TV series for The Great Courses, including the best-selling The History and Archaeology of the Bible, In the Footsteps of Vincent van Gogh, and Searching for the Historical Jesus. He has also directed several programs for Disney, ABC, Hallmark, and the History Channel, working with actors such as Leonard Nimoy, Charlton Heston, Dick Van Dyke, and Morgan Freeman, and produced recordings with orchestras around the world. Dr. Isbouts lives in Santa Monica, California.