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In the Steps of St. Paul
H.V. Morton is the gold standard of travel writers.
In The Steps of St. Paul is one of his masterpieces. Morton wrote the book in 1936, but it is still relevant today because Morton integrates ancient history with the stories of the Bible into a single travelogue. If you’re planning on traveling to this part of the world, I recommend this book as a very readable primer on the history that will keep you interested for hours. Unlike contemporary travel writers, Morton doesn’t linger on the services of a particular hotel or a which restaurant offers the best lunch.
Morton goes in deep, always maintaining his English perspective but never losing sight of the big picture, which is the drama of these locations and the history integrated into them. He travels to the same places and sometimes in the same methods as Saint Paul, drawing intimate portraits of the local life, salting in a good amount of history, and drawing upon original ancient sources to bolster his narratives.
The book is easy to pick up and put down because each chapter is broken up into a series of articles on a particular subject. I only wish travel writers today would follow Morton’s example by skipping the fluff and getting to the heart of a place.
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| Author: | by H. V. Morton |
| ISBNr: | – – no – – (not |
