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HOW FAR TO BETHLEHEM

BY

NORAH LOFTS

FROM THE COVER:

How Far To Bethlehem?

From the remote corners of the ancient world came a strange and
ill-assorted band of travellers ... Melchior, the ascetic scholar from
Asia-Caspar, the barbarian, more accustomed to horses than to people...
and Balthazar, the eunuch slave who had escaped from a cruel and
vicious mistress. Through hazardous and violent country they journeyed
on, led by the visionary Melchior, each of them consumed with their
private torments.

And not until they reached Judea a turbulent land where Greek, Jew and
Roman lived together in an uneasy peace were their dreams and fears
resolved...

With backgrounds varying from the simple village life of Nazareth, to
the barbarian court of Caspar in Jexal, Norah Lofts has created a
fascinating and compassionate story of Israel in the year of the
Nativity. Here, retold, is the story of Mary and Joseph, of the
innkeeper and shepherds, of the turmoil and passion that was the Holy
Land under Roman domination.

And here, above all, is the story of the three travellers from the
east--men in conflict with each other, and with themselves--each
searching for something--something they would only discover on a starry

night in Bethlehem...HOW FAR TO BETHLEHEM?

A CORGI BOOK o 552 08833 I Originally published in Great Britain by
Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd.

printing history Hutchinson edition published 1965 Corgi edition
published 1971 Copyright 1964, 1965 by Norah Lofts Conditions of
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