Eothen : Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
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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
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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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