'The author, who is the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill, has had many of his invaluable specialised map books reviewed in The Testimony. 'This beautifully illustrated Atlas is the result of an actual voyage of discovery made by the author and his 11-year-old daughter from northernmost Galilee to Mount Sinai. The enormous contrasts in the landscape of so small a country (about the size of Wales) with desert and sea, fertile plain and bare mountain, gentle valleys and forbidding canyons, are well brought out in the author's own crisp colour photographs. 'Such a visual approach with the lavish use of specially prepared maps, and relevant Biblical introductory summaries, enables the reader to appreciate the voyages and many of the most important journeys and empire changes outlined in the Bible.' 'It is an excellent atlas for educational study. All the maps are in a variety of contrasting colours without being cluttered with irrelevant material, with routes and place names clearly marked. Each map has its own scale, so that it is just as easy to follow the advance of Saul's armies in miles, as it is to measure in yards (or metres) the distance associated with the details leading up to the death of Jesus. 'It would make a treasured first prize for the higher classes of our Sunday School, for it would ten be invaluable for use in future research and study. 'Each map is marked with a star showing the place from which the accompanying photograph on the opposite page was taken. Biblical quotations are used as captions to the photographs.' J. Geoffrey M Thorne, The Testimony

'...would be a delightful Christmas present for the appropriate child.' Birmingham Sunday Mercury

'...a lavishly illustrated guide to biblical history and a land of great contrasts.' The Field

'...a book which, when you look into it, must help any child, whether from a church-going home or simply constructed with Religious Instruction lessons at school to understand the Bible.' The Bookseller

'Historian Martin Gilbert trekked with his 11-year-old daughter, through the Holyland, to see pillars of salt, the ruins of Jericho, clever Solomon's Reservoir, fishermen on Galilee and so, biblically on. Their pictures, plus twenty good big maps, realise the ancient cockpit. Wish I'd had one at 11.' Alexander Hamilton, Guardian