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A traveler's series of pilgrimage sketches recounts journeys across Palestine, blending sensory descriptions of landscape, ruins, and local customs with observations of modern changes such as railroads, motor vehicles, and aeroplanes. Each chapter visits a holy site—Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Bethany, the Mount of Olives, the Garden, and crossings into Egypt and the Dead Sea region—pairing biblical memory with wartime scars and everyday rural life. The narrative contrasts ancient traditions and sacred geography with technological progress and reflects on possibilities for the land's social and spiritual future.

NEW PATHS
THROUGH OLD PALESTINE

Instead of the soft-footed camels, the motor truck stood at the gates of the Holy City.

New Paths Through Old Palestine

BY
MARGARET SLATTERY
Printed in U. S. A.
THE PILGRIM PRESS.
BOSTON CHICAGO
Copyright 1921
by
SIDNEY A. WESTON
THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON
TO
M. R. H.
THE UNDERSTANDING COMPANION
OF THE PILGRIMAGE