Imagining the Holy Land: Maps, Models, and Fantasy Travels

by Burke O. Long

Book Overview

The photographs, maps, travelers' accounts, and physical reconstructions that are the subject of this book once fired the popular imagination with fantasies of a place called "the Holy Land." It was a singular space of religious imagining, multilayered and charged with symbolism. As Burke O. Long shows, there are many holy lands, and they have been visualized in many ways since the 19th century. At the Chautauqua Institute in New York, visitors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253341361
• ISBN13: 9780253341365
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher