Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea.
By Captain William Francis Lynch (1801-1865), a naval officer who served first in the US Navy and later in the Confederates Navy.
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849.
Hardcover with folding lithographed maps: the River Jordan, the Dead Sea, and 28 wood-engraved plates after drawings by members of the expedition.
Reference: Tobler p. 176. Blackmer 1043.
Lynch carried out the first successful navigation of the Dead Sea, travelling down the Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea in 1848. The official report of this journey was not published until 1852. Half the party travelled overland, the other half navigated the river. The boats had to be carried overland by camels from Acre to the Sea of Galilee. Lynch also visited Ephesus, Smyrna and Constantinople.
Captain William Francis Lynch (American, 1801-1865)

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