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Eothen: Traces of travel brought home from the East

By Alexander William Kinglake
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By Alexander William Kinglake

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One of the most witty and idiosyncratic of travel books, Eothen started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map for a friend, but took Kinglake seven years of painstaking work to finesse. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 through Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Cairo and Damascus, are barely mentioned. The infectious charm lies in the conversations, the whimsical chance encounters and the attitudes of the author.

Kinglake was writing to amuse but also to lampoo...

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