Title A Key for Evaluating Nephite Geographies

Author(s) John Clark

Reference Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1/1 (1989): 20–70.

ISSN 1050-7930 (print), 2168-3719 (online)

Abstract Review of Deciphering the Geography of the Book of

Mormon (1988), by F. Richard Hauck.
The first question in dealing with Book of Mormon
geography should be whether the geography fits the
facts of the Book of Mormon. Clark reconstructs an
elemental geography and examines internal clues for
distances between locations and the surrounding ter-
rain. To evaluate geographies, Clark summarizes ten
simple points having to do with the narrow neck of
land, the coastlines, the wildernesses, the valleys, the
rivers, a lake, and the relative locations of Zarahemla,
Bountiful, Nephi, and Cumorah. Using these crite-
ria, he evaluates the Sorenson and Hauck proposed
geographies.