Her name is Palestine

A. Goodrich Freer

Travel tends to expand concepts! This is what A. Goodrich Freer confirms, as she was keen to explore the "Holy Land" and its Arab people. Freer records her pilgrimage to the land of Palestine from the time she landed in the port of Jaffa until she reached Jerusalem. How did the Arabs dress? What did they eat? What differences did she notice between the peasants and the Bedouins? And the social classes in the cosmopolitan Palestinian cities like Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nablus? She also accurately and impartially documented the role of the Ottoman Empire in providing every means of comfort and protection to its Christian subjects, as well as its Muslim subjects. She did not neglect to clarify the clear rise in the influence of the Germans and their colonies, and the Jewish quest to own land—especially agricultural land—in the land of Palestine. This book contains testimony published for the first time, supported by a large collection of rare photographs of the people of Palestine practicing their lives between agriculture, herding, and hunting, and their religious rituals in complete freedom.