Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East - Softcover

Kinglake, Alexander William

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9780486790626: Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

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ISBN 10: 0486790622 ISBN 13: 9780486790626

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2015

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This fascinating memoir by an English travel writer recaptures scenes from the Middle East of nearly two centuries ago. A. W. Kinglake recounts his 1834–35 trip through the Balkans, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, and Palestine. Rather than dwelling on art or monuments, the captivating narrative focuses on the natives and their cities.

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Eothen ("From the East") recaptures a bold young Englishman's exploits in the Middle East during the 1830s. Alexander William Kinglake recounts his rambles through the Balkans, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in a style radically different from other travel books of his era. Rather than dwelling on art or monuments, Kinglake's captivating narrative focuses on the natives and their cities. His adventures―populated by Bedouins, pashas, slave-traders, monks, pilgrims, and other colorfully drawn personalities―include crossing the desolate Sinai with a four-camel caravan and a sojourn in plague-ridden Cairo.
A contemporary of Gladstone at Eton and of Tennyson and Thackeray at Cambridge, Kinglake offers a frankly imperialistic worldview. "As I felt so have I written," he declares in his preface, and his forthright expressions of his thoughts and impressions range in mood from confessional, to comic, to serious, to romantic. Victorian readers were captivated by Kinglake's chatty tone and his uncompromising honesty, and two centuries later this remarkable travelogue remains funny, fresh, and original.
Dover (2015) republication of the edition originally published by John Lehmann, Ltd., London, 1948.
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About the Author:

Alexander William Kinglake (1809–91) was an English travel writer and Member of Parliament. He wrote an in-depth account of the Crimean War but is best remembered for this work, an account of his 1834–35 trip to the Balkans, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, and Palestine.

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