Here are fourteen colourfull chapters strung out like the decades of the beads, but the fifteenth is missing, for 'Although the authoress been in the Holy Land, he has not to heaven,' as one American reviewer remarked. Canon O'Shea vivid descriptions of the land and people, his authentic historical background for each hallowed scene, and his humorous treatment of encounters with Moslems and Jews, pilgrims and natives, Greeks and Russians, make this book non-stop reading for all who would know Palestine of the past and present.