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Featured Categories : Travel & Holiday : Countries & Regions : Middle East : Israel : Jerusalem
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Lonely Planet's guide to Jerusalem is both authoritative and concise--no less than one would expect from such an esteemed travel publisher. The authors deal intelligently with the peculiar character of the city, covering the sights sacred to the three great monotheistic faiths. And, also in the tradition of the Lonely Planet guides, the authors are perfectly able to deal with the conflicts the city is known for. In pithily written paragraphs, we are taken to the heights of the Mount of Olives, the Old City, and, of course, Kidron Valley. All are evoked with clarity in just a few well-chosen sentences (although, as usual, a great deal of text is packed into 200-odd pages). A key feature is the illustrated guide to the Israel Museum, but the guide is equally good at conjuring up the hipper parts of the city, with the hottest night-clubs detailed. Another useful feature is the excursions section: most people will want to take in Bethlehem, Jericho, Masada and the Dead Sea. Hellander and Humphreys tell us the most economic and stress-free ways to get there. The maps are spare but exhaustive in their coverage, complementing this practically definitive guide. --Barry Forshaw
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Victoria Clark's The Far-Farers is a journey through time and space. As she follows in the footsteps of Thorvald the Far-Farer, an Icelandic Viking convert to Christianity who made an epic pilgrimage from his native land to Jerusalem, she also recalls the 11th-century world of social change and religious conflict in which he lived.Clark writes better as an historian than as a travel writer. Her central contention that events in 10,00 laid the essential groundwork for the rest of the millennium may be arguable, but her thumbnail sketches of popes, kings, scholars and holy warriors are vivid and convincing, and she moves briskly through a century that began with a German emperor and a pope peacefully cooperating in the task of uniting Christendom and ended in the bitter fighting of the First Crusade. When describing her own experiences on her journey, she is less compelling. Like many travel writers (Paul Theroux, for one), she has the knack of meeting oddball and potentially interesting fellow wanderers but she doesn't always succeed in bringing them to life on the page. She seems more comfortable with her 11th-century characters than she does with her contemporary pilgrims and travellers.
The Far-Farers is an ambitious book. It doesn't fulfil all its ambitions but, as it moves smoothly between past and present, it provides an enjoyable revelation of the parallels between the two. --Nick Rennison
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