Aaronsohn's Maps: The Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Modern Middle East

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Catapult, 2015/08/01 - 344 ページ
Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at age five, as a young man Aaronsohn was a rugged adventurer who became convinced during years of solo explorations that water should govern the region's fate. He compiled both the area's first detailed water maps and a plan for Palestine's national borders that predicted and—in its insistence on partnership between Arabs and Jews—might have prevented the decades of conflict to come.



In World War I, he ran a spy network with his sister, Sarah, that enabled the British to capture Jerusalem but also made him the rival of his colleague T.E. Lawrence. There is evidence that beautiful, rebellious Sarah, who died tragically in 1917, was the only woman the enigmatic Lawrence ever loved.

Ultimately, Aaron Aaronsohn also paid for his devotion to the new nation with his life. A history that speaks directly to the present, Aaronsohn's Maps reveals for the first time Aaronsohn's key role in establishing Israel and the enduring importance of Aaronsohn's maps in Middle Eastern politics today.
 

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Preface
The Jew in the Bathchair
The Spies of Moses
Flying the Zionist Kite in America
Minuet
The Locust Hunter
Felix Krull Confidence
He Who Writes the Dispatches
The Sacrifice
Icarus Falls from the
Inconvenient Heroes
Aaronsohns Road
Acknowledgments
Select Bibliography on Source Notes
Index
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Patricia Goldstone has been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and a bureau chief for Cablevision. She has written for the Washington Post,Maclean's, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and the Abu Dhabi National, among others. She holds a Master's Degree in Literature from Trinity College in Dublin and is the author of Making the World Safe
for Tourism
(Yale University Press, 2001) and Aaronsohn's Maps (Harcourt, 2007). She is a national award–winning playwright. She divides her time between New York and Los Angeles.

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