Eothen
Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
$37.95
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2019
Summary
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, thr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780601427 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780601425 |
| Author: | Alexander William Kinglake, Jonathan Raban |
| Publisher: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 364g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 217mm x 139mm |
| Series: | Eland Classics |
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About The Author
Alexander William Kinglake
Alexander William Kinglake (1809-1891) was an English travel writer and historian. He was born near Taunton, Somerset, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1837 and built up a thriving legal practice, which, in 1856, he abandoned to devote himself to literature and public life.
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