Table of Contents

Remembering Jerusalem, 1799-1839; the coming of the nations, 1839-1865; measuring Jerusalem - the early years of the fund; possessing the land - the Western survey; looking over Jordan - work in the east and Sinai; digging for England - archaeology, 1890-1909; fading glories, 1909-1912; the wilderness of Zin - T.E. Lawrence and the Fund.

Reviews

"The history of the Palestine Exploration Fund from 1865 to the start of the Great War is of interest because in it can be found the seeds of many of the problems that beset Palestine now. John Moscrop's meticulous and detailed account shows how pious Victorian Englishmen translated their devotion to the text of the Bible into a belief that the land described in it belonged to them in a spiritual sense."
Edward Fox, Journal of Palestine Studies, Autumn 2001