A Winter Pilgrimage

A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus in 1900 is a non fiction book by H Rider Haggard.[1][2]

A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus in 1900
AuthorH. Rider Haggard
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
1901

Reception

... In sympathy with the early and mediæval travellers to the Holy Land, he expresses the hope that a thousand years hence his book may serve as a link between these worthies and their unborn successors. No one will begrudge him this pleasure of anticipation. Certainly none of his predecessors in the Age of Faith can have approached the sacred sites in a more reverent spirit, or with a profounder sense of the greatness of the events of which they were the theatre. To the reader, however, the interest of this part of the volume will be largely psychological ...[3]

References
  1. "A WINTER PILGRRIMAGE". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 7 December 1901. p. 4. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  2. "BOOKS and Their WRITERS". The Sunday Times. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 2 February 1902. p. 10. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  3. "Review of A Winter Pilgrimage by H. Rider Haggard". The Athenaeum (3863): 623–624. 9 November 1901. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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