Bethlehem in Pal�stina: The 1840s Travelogue of a Visitor to the Holy Land

In 1835, a 27-year-old Swiss doctor, Titus Tobler, travelled to Palestine to undertake medical research. The trip sparked a lifelong fascination with the Holy Land. Tobler spent considerable time in Bethlehem and decided that the city of Christ’s birth deserved its own detailed publication. First published in German in 1849, this volume delivers a fascinating and meticulous insight into the historic small town in the critical few years before global events changed it forever and opened it u...