Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man who Might have Created Peace in the Middle East - Hardcover

Goldstone, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151011699 ISBN 13: 9780151011698

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

Synopsis

Profiles scientist, diplomat, and spy Aaron Aaronsohn, focusing on his role in the struggle to create a homeland for the Jews, his compilation of the region's first detailed water maps and Palestine's national borders, and his influence in establishing the state of Israel.

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From the Back Cover:

From AARONSOHN'S MAPS:
Aaron Aaronsohn was a warrior-intellectual of prodigious energy and talent and the one man who might have engineered a workable solution to the thorny issue of Palestine's boundaries. What this superman wanted was an independent Palestine free from debt and Great Powers ? and grounded in an egalitarian working relationship between Jews and Arabs. The unique geological maps of Palestine he had created out of many years of youthful exploration defined Aaron's maximum boundary, the largest territory for the new Palestine being presented in Paris in 1919. Where Winston Churchill and others saw oil as the defining commodity of the twentieth century, Aaron saw beyond them into the twenty-first, when water would become the most critical resource. In the maps and plans he carried with him from London were the outlines of a venture that, had it succeeded, would have altered the course of modern history. But Aaron, so brilliant in so many ways, had the fatal flaw that makes the tragic hero. . . .

About the Author:

PATRICIA GOLDSTONE has been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and has written for the Washington Post, Maclean's, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, among others. She is the author of Making the World Safe for Tourism. She lives in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0151011699
• ISBN 13: 9780151011698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344