Big Fisherman

The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas, Boston Hougton Mifflin Company, 1948. The big Galilean fisherman, who is Simon Peter, the Apostle, is not introduced until the fifth chapter of this book. In the first hundred pages the author succeeds to inter­est the reader in the conflict and hatred existing between the wan­dering, wilderness-loving Arabians and their Jewish neighbors living in the cities of Palestine. Fearing Rome, King Herod schemed an al­liance between the Jews and the Arabs and...