Seeing Through the Eyes of the Voyager (A Review of Twelve Pilgrims
The metaphor of seeing is a powerful one, and Twelve Pilgrims is a product of seeing. On the cover, we see the clear road marks of the meandering road through the arid mountains and valleys of Palestine. This is a powerful image and the emotion it invokes in each of us depends on our history of the Holy Land, and our feelings about it. For some, it invokes a sense of awe, for others melancholy, and still for others, nostalgia. But none of us is left unaffected by it. It is the same picture, the one we see on the cover; but we each react to it differently. Such is the power of seeing. It is just as the American writer Rick Riordan once observed
