Excerpt from Thresholds 27: Exploration The expedition obsessively measured the mineral levels and looked for life in the Dead Sea. They floated themselves and their horses on the miraculous water, all the while pondering the damned cities of Sodom and Gomorrah beneath. For Lynch, even empirical observation of the landscape recalled biblical scenes. Lynch emphasized the resemblance between the hardships of explorers and the trials of early saints and pilgrims. The vividness of his descriptions operated as simultaneously religious and scientific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.