Eothen

History

Kinglake, Alexander William

Middle East

Franklin Classics

"My favorite travel book. Sparkling, ironic, and terrific fun." — Jan MorrisEothen ("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.

Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

Travel

Travel Writing

Dover `

Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home From the East

Wentworth Press

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1848 edition by George P. Putnam, New York.

Eothen, or Traces of Travel, Brought Home from the East

Adamant Media Corporation

In the autumn of 1834, Alexander Kinglake and John Savile set out together for Turkey and the Levant. When Savile was summoned home Kinglake, accompanied only by his guide and interpreter, went on by ship to Cyprus and Beirut, then to the Holy Land, Cairo, and Damascus. On his own in a foreign world, Kinglake used the solitary travel for prolonged self-scrutiny, and ultimately for liberation. Eothen has the freshness of the immediate and the new. Kinglake kept it free of the details of geography, history, science, politics, religion, and statistics; it is far less about the countries and the cities he passes through that it is about himself. This is what makes Eothen a modern travel book, possibly the first and certainly one of the greatest of its kind.

Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (Marlboro Travel)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Northwestern University Press

Book by Kinglake, Alexander William

Marlboro Pr

The Invasion of the Crimea; Volume 4

Russia

Legare Street Press

The Invasion of the Crimea

Europe

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