Description: LOT OF FIVE BOOKS. JOHN L. STODDARD'S LECTURES.SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME NUMBER FOUR. SICILY , GENOA, A DRIVE THROUGH THE ENGADINE. 1909CANADA I, CANADA II, MALTA , GIBRALTAR. SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME NUMBER TWO. 1909SOUTH TYROL. AROUND LAKE GARDA, THE DOLOMITES. SUPPLEMETARY VOLUME NUMBER THREE. 1909INDIA I, INDIA II, THE PASSION PLAY. VOLUME FOUR. 1909NORWAY. SWITZERLAND. ATHENS. VENICE. VOLUME ONE. 1909 please look at photos to help determine condition. visit my Ebay store bunch of old Stuff for lots of great books and Check out my other items! John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931) was an American writer, hymn writer and lecturer who gained popularity through his travelogues. Stoddard was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1850. In 1871 he graduated from Williams College. At Williams Stoddard was a member of the fraternity of Delta Psi ( aka St. Anthony Hall). Later he studied two years of theology at Yale Divinity School. After that he taught Latin and French at Boston Latin School.[2] He was proud of his descent from Solomon Stoddard. He began traveling around the world in 1874, and published Red-Letter Days Abroad in 1884. He turned his experiences into a series of popular lectures delivered throughout North America. These lectures were periodically published in book form as John L. Stoddard's Lectures and eventually numbered ten volumes and five supplements (1897-1898).[3] In 1901, Stoddard published a book on Gibraltar.[4] The books include numerous illustrations derived from the immense catalog of photographs taken by Stoddard, and cover every subject, from art and architecture, to archeology and natural history. The books were immensely popular in their day and many copies still survive. Later in life, Stoddard also published poetry, as well as books on religious subjects. Brought up a Protestant, Stoddard was an agnostic for over thirty years, before converting with his wife to Roman Catholicism. In 1922 he published Rebuilding a Lost Faith, a famous work of apologetics which is still in print. The Main Street of Gibraltar - illustrated his 1901 book.[4] Stoddard was a proponent of the restoration of the Jews to Israel. In Volume 2 of his Lectures he told the Jews, “You are a people without a country; there is a country without a people. Be united. Fulfill the dreams of your old poets and patriarchs. Go back, go back to the land of Abraham.”[5] A sentiment popularized as "A land without a people for a people without a land." However, his son Lothrop Stoddard, who remained agnostic after his father's conversion,[6][7] held antisemitic views.[8] During his later life he used his fortune to support his adopted home of Merano, South Tyrol, contributing substantially to the building of its secondary school and to a home for homeless youth, now used as a rehabilitation centre visit my Ebay store bunch of old Stuff for lots of great books and Check out my other items! . Check out my other items!Be sure to add me to your favorites list! visit my Ebay store bunch of old Stuff for lots of great books and Check out my other items! location: PINGPONG Add a map to your own listings. FREE Trial! Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter
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Binding: Hardcover
Subject: Exploration & Travel
Topic: World
Author: JOHN STODDARD
ILLUSTRATED: YES, LOTS OF ILLUSTRATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS
Publisher: BALCH BROTHERS, BOSTON
Year Printed: 1909