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Living waters : myth, history, and politics of the Dead Sea

Title
Living waters : myth, history, and politics of the Dead Sea / Barbara Kreiger ; foreword by Noel Perrin.
Author
Kreiger, Barbara.
Publication
New York : Continuum, 1988.

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Description
226 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Geschichte
  • Geschiedschrijving
  • Dead Sea Region (Israel and Jordan) > History
  • Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan) > History
  • Morte, Mer (Israël et Jordanie) > Histoire
  • Middle East > Dead Sea
  • Middle East > Dead Sea Region
  • Totes Meer > Region
  • Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan) > History
  • Totes Meer (Region)
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 207-218.
Contents
Part I: The strange water -- Some early history, travellers, myths -- Part II: Nineteenth-century exploration -- Three sailors, and a river -- Along the briny strand -- Part III: Origins and evolution -- The life of a lake -- Part IV: Further exploration -- A gentleman from Siberia -- A lake divided.
ISBN
  • 0826404065
  • 9780826404060
LCCN
88010924
OCLC
  • ocm17803442
  • 17803442
  • SCSB-1701955
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library