Subject: Christian Zionism

This is the first American edition of Laurence Oliphant's *Haifa: Or Life in Modern Palestine*, published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1887. Edited by Charles A. Dana from letters Oliphant sent to him, the book recounts Oliphant's 1879 travels to Palestine and his involvement in efforts to promote Jewish immigration. The book contains 369 pages and includes six pages of publisher's advertisements at the end.