Hiking In Israel

Author : Yaʻaḳov Shḳolniḳ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiking in Israel written by Yaʻaḳov Shḳolniḳ and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 6000 miles of marked hiking trails, israel is one ofthe world's best-kept hiking secrets. This lavishly illustrated book details hiking in Israel, complete with maps, photographs, itineraries and useful hiking tips.

Author : Shay Rabineau
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253064562
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking the Land written by Shay Rabineau and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel has one of the most extensive and highly developed hiking trail systems of any country in the world. Millions of hikers use the trails every year during holiday breaks, on mandatory school trips, and for recreational hikes. Walking the Land offers the first scholarly exploration of this unique trail system. Featuring more than ten thousand kilometers of trails, marked with hundreds of thousands of colored blazes, the trail system crisscrosses Israeli-controlled territory, from the country's farthest borders to its densest metropolitan areas. The thousand-kilometer Israel National Trail crosses the country from north to south. Hiking, trails, and the ubiquitous three-striped trail blazes appear everywhere in Israeli popular culture; they are the subjects of news articles, radio programs, television shows, best-selling novels, government debates, and even national security speeches. Yet the trail system is almost completely unknown to the millions of foreign tourists who visit every year and has been largely unstudied by scholars of Israel. Walking the Land explores the many ways that Israel's hiking trails are significant to its history, national identity, and conservation efforts.

Author : Martin Fletcher
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429946067
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking Israel written by Martin Fletcher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the much lauded author of Breaking News comes a version of Walking the Bible just for Israel. With its dense history of endless conflict and biblical events, Israel's coastline is by far the most interesting hundred miles in the world. As longtime chief of NBC's Tel Aviv news bureau, Martin Fletcher is in a unique position to interpret Israel, and he brings it off in a spectacular and novel manner. Last year he strolled along the entire coast, from Lebanon to Gaza, observing facets of the country that are ignored in news reports, yet tell a different and truer story. Walking Israel is packed with hilarious moments, historical insights, emotional, true-life tales, and, above all, great storytelling.

Author : Bex Band
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784778385
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Stripes South written by Bex Band and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Stripes South travel narrative - The story of Bex Band's 1,000km trek along the Israel National Trail that inspired the Love Her Wild Women's Adventure Movement; an inspirational and transformative adventure memoir.

Author : Raja Shehadeh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416570098
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Walks written by Raja Shehadeh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —Jimmy Carter From one of Palestine’s leading writers, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man’s wanderings through the landscape he loves—once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls—updated with a new afterword by the author. “I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the man who was doing all the talking and seemed to be the commander. “In fact I was once here with my wife, it was 1999, and some of your soldiers shot at us.” “It was over on that side,” the soldier pointed out. “I was there,” he said, smiling. When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was traveling through a vanishing landscape. In recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth and ancient monasteries built more than a thousand years ago. Shehadeh's love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography. But latterly, as seemingly endless concrete is poured to build settlements and their surrounding walls, he finds the old trails are now impassable and the countryside he once traversed freely has become contested ground. He is harassed by Israeli border patrols, watches in terror as a young hiking companion picks up an unexploded missile and even, on one occasion when accompanied by his wife, comes under prolonged gunfire. Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh's elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor for the deprivations of an entire people estranged from their land.

Author : Jacob Saar
Publisher : Eshkol Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789654205917
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel National Trail written by Jacob Saar and published by Eshkol Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Israel National Trail (INT) is one of the most exciting hikes in the world, expanding over 1,100 kilometers from the north to the south of Israel. You can hike its' entire length, or just selected sections of your choice, and you can hike it in winter too. It is the ultimate Israeli hiking experience, and you can do it easily with the guide that simply has all you need. This full and comprehensive guide includes 62 topographical maps (1:50,000) and 7 road maps (1:250,000). The guide offers a full description of the hike on the Israel national trail in both northbound and southbound directions and the hiking profile - distance and height above or below sea level. The maps along with a day-by-day trail descriptions and tips make this guide your one-stop shop and all you need to hike the Israel National Trail. The guide is suitable for experienced hikers as well as families and individuals looking to explore Israel in a whole new and exciting way. The new section from Arad to Masada and the Dead Sea is included.

Author : Shay Rabineau
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253064554
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking the Land written by Shay Rabineau and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel has one of the most extensive and highly developed hiking trail systems of any country in the world. Millions of hikers use the trails every year during holiday breaks, on mandatory school trips, and for recreational hikes. Walking the Land offers the first scholarly exploration of this unique trail system. Featuring more than ten thousand kilometers of trails, marked with hundreds of thousands of colored blazes, the trail system crisscrosses Israeli-controlled territory, from the country's farthest borders to its densest metropolitan areas. The thousand-kilometer Israel National Trail crosses the country from north to south. Hiking, trails, and the ubiquitous three-striped trail blazes appear everywhere in Israeli popular culture; they are the subjects of news articles, radio programs, television shows, best-selling novels, government debates, and even national security speeches. Yet the trail system is almost completely unknown to the millions of foreign tourists who visit every year and has been largely unstudied by scholars of Israel. Walking the Land explores the many ways that Israel's hiking trails are significant to its history, national identity, and conservation efforts.

Author : Oded Löwenheim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472052128
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Trail written by Oded Löwenheim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of conflict on display through a morning commute through Jerusalem

Author : Matt Forster
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493038419
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Hikes Detroit and Ann Arbor written by Matt Forster and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? In Best Hikes Detroit and Ann Arbor veteran hiker Matt Forster offers the absolute best hikes in the greater Detroit area. Each featured trail is perfect for the urban and suburbanite hard-pressed to find outdoor activities close to home. Every chapter includes up-to-date hike specs, a brief hike description, directional cues, and a detailed map.

Author : Stefan Szepesi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908493613
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking Palestine written by Stefan Szepesi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the images of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is the one activity probably least associated with the West Bank region. But Stefan Szepesi s book wanders well off the beaten track of Palestine as only a synonym for occupation and strife, exploring its inspiring natural and cultural landscape, its intriguing past and present, and the hospitality of its people. The book takes first-time walkers and experienced hikers, as well as armchair explorers, through Palestine's steep desert gorges, along its tiny herders trails and over its quiet dirt roads running past silver green olive groves. With side stories and anecdotes on heritage, history, culture and daily life in the West Bank, the book ventures into the traits and character of Palestine today. Beyond the 250 km of walking trails described and mapped in detail throughout the book, Walking Palestine offers a wealth of practical walking tips, including references to local guides, the West Bank s best leisure spots and countryside restaurants, and the most charming places to spend the night.