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It is very much true that the best companion, as the Arab poet said, is a book, for the book is the light which paves the way to the astray who is unable to reach his destination. However the real competition among the writers is how to captivate the heart and the eyes of the readers. Hence I am in the field for this purpose. The book paves the way to the reader who may wade into the images of the Arabs as depicted by the Victorian travelers to the east, then it offers the moral lessons of determination in the twentieth century novels. The images of the Jews throughout English literature for a considerable period of time will be there showing their social value among the civilized Europeans. The book finally offers, in detail, the scientific motives that stood behind the Victorian travelers´ journeys to the East. To open a new book is as if we meet a bunch of new people of different moods and views, but having traveled with this book, this obsession soon is vanished and you become so a dear guest to so a hospitalized host.

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Jamil Yousef Al-Asmar is a professor of English literature at University of Palestine - Gaza. Obtained his B.A and M.A in English/Punjab University- Pakistan in 1980. In 1990 obtained his (PhD) from Wales University in UK. In 2009 he was promoted to an associate professor at Al-Azhar Uni. And in 2014 he was promoted to a full professorship.

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