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Five Years In The East by R. N. Hutton. Five Years In The East is a two-volume travel narrative recounting a mid-19th-century voyage from the Far East toward England. The author chronicles ports and passages across the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, including Ceylon (Colombo), the Malabar coast, Bombay, Aden, and the Suez route, then proceeds up the Nile and through the Mediterranean to Europe. The prose blends vivid, sometimes humorous observations of landscapes, climates, and urban scenes with portraits of sailors, merchants, Parsee traders, and local communities. Along the way, the book offers ethnographic sketches, reflections on steam navigation, and literary digressions about spice groves, pearl divers, temples, and ancient sites such as the pyramids and Elephanta caves. A cosmopolitan travelogue of empire, it images the rhythms of travel, weather, and courtly life across a vast geographic arc while preserving a wry, observational voice about both travelers and peoples encountered on the road to England.
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Five Years in the East: Volume 2
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