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Lewis Gaston Leary
1877–1951
A Presbyterian minister with a serious case of wanderlust, he turned wide-ranging travels in Europe and the Middle East into books and articles for general readers. His work blends first-hand observation with an easy curiosity about places, history, and belief.
2 Audiobooks
The Christmas city : Bethlehem across the ages
by Lewis Gaston Leary
Syria, the land of Lebanon
by Lewis Gaston Leary
About the author
Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1877, Lewis Gaston Leary was a Presbyterian clergyman as well as a travel writer. Sources agree that he studied at Rutgers and later earned advanced degrees in New York, and that he served as pastor of the Huguenot Memorial Presbyterian Church in Pelham Manor, New York.
Leary wrote extensively out of his travels, especially about Europe and the Middle East. Confirmed titles include Andorra, the Hidden Republic; Its Origin and Institutions, and the Record of a Journey Thither, The Real Palestine of To-day, The Christmas City Bethlehem Across the Ages, and Problems of Protestantism. His writing suggests a reader-friendly mix of travel narrative, history, and religious reflection.
He died in 1951. Although he is not widely known today, his books preserve the voice of an early-20th-century author who approached distant places with the eye of a traveler and the background of a minister.