Tourists, Travellers and Hotels in 19th-Century Jerusalem

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 trave...