Hotel Tiberias: A Tale of Two Grandfathers

by Sebastian Hope

Book Overview

Part history, part travel journal and part autobiography, 'Hotel Tiberias' is a journey of many layers and resonances, as Sebastian Hope follows the tumultuous story of his family's hotel in Palestine.

In 1900, Thomas Cook, who had been running tours of the Holy Land since the 1890s, financed the building of a hotel in Tiberias, the largest town on the Sea of Galilee, which had long been a stopover point for Christian pilgrims. The hotel,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 000713021X
• ISBN13: 9780007130214
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.6"