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Concerns the author's 1834 Grand Tour to Turkey through what is now Eastern Europe. This book avoids the well-trodden routes that take in ruins and artworks and instead offers the exotic sights and smells of the East, spiced with real or imagined dangers.
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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.
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Kinglake was an English historian and travel writer. He gave a unique touch to the genre of travelogue through his expression and style. He also had a flourishing business as a lawyer.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0330337769
- ISBN 13 9780330337762
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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Eothen : Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
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