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In the Steps of Saint Paul

  • Michael Ledger-Lomas
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Abstract

Early in the 1930s, the travel writer H. V. Morton found himself being questioned by Turkish police as he waited to change trains in the small town of Adana:

‘They want to know what you are doing here,’ [my interpreter] said. ‘I have come to see Tarsus.’ ‘They want to know why.’ ‘Because I am writing a book about St Paul.’ I could see that this shattered the morale of the police force.1

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Nineteenth Century Literary History Early Nineteenth Century Sunday School Imperial Competition 
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