Patricia Goldstone
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The author first came across Aaron and his beautiful and courageous sister Sarah, who may have been the only woman Lawrence ever loved, when she was researching a book on water and conflict in the Middle East. She was struck by the silence around someone who seemed to have been an enormous figure: far ahead of his time, he foresaw that water, not oil, would one day become the most important commodity in the Middle East. 'Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East' shows how Aaronsohn not only altered the course of World War I but his plans for Palestine's national boundaries, based on years of mapping the Jordan River headwaters, predicted Israel's decades of conflict over the Golan Heights. A history that speaks directly to the underlying causes of Israel's present tensions with Syria, 'Aaronsohn's Maps,' published by Harcourt, is now in bookstores and available online from Barnes & Noble and Amazon. You can read more about Aaron and Sarah in Patricia's own words on the 'About Aaron Aaronsohn' page.
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Patricia Goldstone, acclaimed journalist, playwright, and author of 'Making the World Safe for Tourism' has just published a new book on Aaron Aaronsohn, the extraordinary Jewish adventurer who rivalled T.E. Lawrence in creating the modern Middle East and insisted even more strongly on Arab-Jewish partnership. © Patricia Goldstone 2007