Reviews for A Ride Across Palestine

The average rating for A Ride Across Palestine based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-23 00:00:00 Jim Renfro I got this book from my mother. Not in the way you might be thinking. When I was a kid, I heard Mom say something like "Oh wow, we have these Horatio Alger books, isn't that something!" I took note of that, and asked her what was the significance. She had said that Alger wrote books for children in her day and that they were pretty good. So at that time I thought I should read them. About thirty years later I asked her if I could have the books and she gave them to me. They were very old. The pages were drying and actually breaking apart in some spots. I took them to an antiquarian to see if they were worth anything and he said they were worthless. He was even rude about it. He thought I was trying to sell them to him. Anyway, now, about twenty years after I got the books, I have read the first one. (There are three) The book was published in 1890. I must say, I enjoyed the book. I see in the book the hero always wins and politeness and kindness always pays off and good character always advances a person. I think I got a lot of my life expectations from stories like this except the ones I refer to are things like The Lone ranger. The tales and conflicts in the book are typical, and as I said, written for children. (Maybe age 13 to 18) Situations of adventure or danger are often resolved in half a page. I liked it though. I also seem to be reading a lot of books the last couple months from this early nineteen hundreds back to late eighteen hundreds and it is kind of cool to be reading along and realize that horse travel was the way, and when the story says you got in a cab, not even mentioning horses, you are in a horse drawn vehicle. So there is that whole change of society thing. The book has a happy ending. The characters in the story start off impoverished and end up at least somewhat well off with a nice path to more happy times as far as economic situations go. As I said, the good guy wins. It is all stuff I like from my gut. I intend to read the other two soon.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-04 00:00:00 Bryan Lukas WOW! What a great read! Just my kind of story. Perfect adventure story for children who are into reading chapter books. Or even middle-aged 12 year olds like myself.