Travel Eastward to Bountiful

(In Search of Lehi’s Trail, Hilton & Hilton, pp. 40-41)

“The best guide [American text] to Arabia at the time of the writing of the Book of Mormon imagined forests and lakes in the center of the peninsula, while insisting that the whole coastline was ‘a rocky wall as dismal and barren as can be: not a blade of grass or a green thing,’ to be found. The Book of Mormon reverses the picture and has Lehi avoid the heart of the continent to discover smiling woodlands on the south coast.” (Hugh Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, p. 127)