by John MacGregor.
In MacGregor's largest work, with more than 500 pages, he voyages on the Jordan, the Nile, the Red Sea and Gennesareth during his canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt and the waters of Damascus. This is really an extraordinary work! Apart from the canoeing and the details of the rig, he is most interested on this voyage in tracing various events in the Bible as they relate to the eye of a sailor. Those events which have anything to do with ships and/or the Jordan are carefully examined. Even to those of us who might be less religious, there is a great fascination in following his reasoning and relating what he finds to that which is described in the Bible. MacGregor is often caricatured as the stiff-necked Englishman by many of today's contemporary reviewers, but it is in this work that he betrays a very finely honed sense of compassion and understanding for others. His comments on the status of women in the Arab world are prescient of a lot of today's thinking on the equality of womankind, and his sense of fairness and understanding of other ethnic peoples is truly inspiring. A thoroughly fascinating read! With a new Foreword by Brian Kologe. Illustrated with 8 maps, 4 full-colour plates and 62 very fine woodcuts.
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