Tourists, Travellers and Hotels in 19th-Century Jerusalem

On Mark Twain and Charles Warren at the Mediterranean Hotel

Rupert L. Chapman Iii (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2013
Maney Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-907975-28-8 (ISBN)

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Jerusalem was a constant focus in the hearts and minds of all pilgrims and tourists travelling to the Holy Land in the nineteenth century, but knowing exactly where they might get clean and decent accommodations on arrival was of the utmost importance.
This volume is a study of the rise of commercial hotel keeping in Jerusalem, from the beginnings in the early 1840s, drawing extensively on travel accounts and archives, notably those of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

Chapters cover modes of travel and the role of dragomen, the appearance of early guidebooks, and various other aspects of secular tourism, such as the development of travel bureaus in the Levant, notably the Thomas Cook & Son company, and the significant part that freemasonry played amongst tourism vendors.

The book primarily provides readers with a comprehensive account of early hotels, inns and hostels in Jerusalem, and the names and personal histories of their proprietors. Special attention is given to the development of the Mediterranean Hotel which was one of the most important establishments of its kind in nineteenth-century Jerusalem, and the fascinating story of the rediscovery of its second location.

Many travellers passed through its doors, notably the writers Herman Melville and Mark Twain, U. S. Grant, the explorer Charles Warren, and members of the Survey of Western Palestine mapping party.

This study which includes a wide variety of pictorial archival materials was initiated and made possible by the Shapell Manuscript Foundation.

Rupert L. Chapman III

1. Tourists and Pilgrims in Nineteenth-Century Jerusalem. 2. Early Hotels, Inns and Hostels The Melita Hotel Hotel Meshullam The Rosenthal Hotel Hotel Palmyra The Damascus Hotel Hotel De L’europe Olivet Pension/Hensman’s Hotel Howard’s Hotel Feil Hotel Grand New Hotel Hotel Kaminitz Lloyd Hotel/Fast’s Hotel Hughes Hotel. 3. The Mediterranean Hotel at the Patriarch’s Pool. 4. The Mediterranean Hotel on the Hill of Bezetha. 5. Mark Twain, Rolla Floyd, Thomas Cook& Son, and Freemasonry in Jerusalem. 6. The Mediterranean Hotel near the Jaffa Gate. 7. Secular Tourism in the Nineteenth Century.

Reihe/Serie	The Palestine Exploration Fund Annual
Verlagsort	Leeds
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1315 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	1-907975-28-4 / 1907975284
ISBN-13	978-1-907975-28-8 / 9781907975288
Zustand	Neuware