{"product_id":"9780752440095","title":"Englishman Moor and the Holy City","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1601, an Englishman named Henry Timberlake sails off into the unknown to trade with Egypt. Leaving behind a wife and children, he journeys to Alexandria and overland to Cairo. Here he finds he cannot sell his stock and, on a whim, he does the unexpected: he makes a dealth-defying journey to Gaza and to Jerusalem, encountering terrifying threats against his life and racing camels along the way. In this journey Henry Timberlake meets a Muslim who will amaze him. A Moroccan Moor on his way to Mecca saves Timberlake's life, not once, but twice; they become travelling companions as the Moor detours to join Timberlake in his voyage of discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The tale of how a Moor befriends an English sea captain in the time of Shakespeare, Drake and Raleigh is set in a larger story-that of Muslims and Christians and the way they related in an era just before our own. Timberlake would eventually return to London and turn his attention to America, becoming one of the first landowners in Virginia, but his travels in the Holy Land-published in 1603-remain an astonishing tale of adventure, religious differences, compassion and discovery. Henry Timberlake is not a pious pilgrim, but a businessman and a sea captain with the eyes of the modern world. His experiences resound with significance for today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this fascinating true story of an Elizabethan adventurer, Joan Taylor not only traces the journey of a remarkable man but explores the relationship between East and West, and between Islam and Christianity, at the foundation of the modern world. She provides a vivid picture of Jerusalem at the time of the Ottoman Empire and a tale of fellowship between two very different people whose paths happened to cross.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tempus Publishing, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015529119984,"sku":"9780752440095","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780752440095_p0.jpg?v=1763656018","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780752440095","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}