Eothen : Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

Name: Eothen
Brand: Eland Publishing Ltd
SKU: 9781780601427
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9781780601427

by Alexander William Kinglake , Jonathan Raban

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1780601425

ISBN-13 9781780601427

Publisher Eland Publishing Ltd

Imprint Eland Publishing Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 13th, 2019

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 368 grams

Dimensions 19.90 x 13.60 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Travel writing

KSh 2,350.00

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Eothen, which means `news from the east started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his own youthful `year off travels, but it became one of the most influential, witty and idiosyncratic of travel books.

It took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the Near eastern cities of Jerusalem, Cairo and Damascus, are never as significant as the conversations, chance encounters and attitudes of the author. Packed full of an infectious charm and a youthful delight at the world, it is above all things funny as it lampoons the pomposity of earnest, middle?aged travellers seeking to establish themselves as professional authorities.

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