title: I Walked to Jerusalem: A Pilgrim's Trek Across Europe and Asia
author:  Anthony de Lyon 
description: "While well-written throughout, and loaded with fascinating details, colorful characters, and dialogue and anecdotes both harrowing and amusing, the chapter on Syria is a standout and almost impossible to put down ... anyone interested in making the world a better place might want to pick up this book." ~24th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards
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  A Ride Across Palestine  
    
  
  
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  # A Ride Across Palestine
  
  
  ### Anthony Trollope
  
  
  
  
  
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  Circumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and
  
  
  compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church
  
  
  of the Sepulchre alone. I acknowledge myself to be a gregarious
  
  
  animal, or, perhaps, rather one of those which nature has intended
  
  
  to go in pairs. At any rate I dislike solitude, and especially
  
  
  travelling solitude, and was, therefore, rather sad at heart as I
  
  
  sat one night at Z-'s hotel, in Jerusalem, thinking over my proposed
  
  
  wanderings for the next few days. Early on the following morning I
  
  
  intended to start, of course on horseback, for the Dead Sea, the
  
  
  banks of 