Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East

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A classical travel writing in the Victorian era written by Alexander William Kinglake which narrates his travel experiences from the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his way of living there in the days of affliction.

The book is comprised of 29 chapters which are short in length. A good book for those who like to satisfy their want for traveling and for those who enjoy reading about the olden times.

Alexander William Kinglake was a British travel writer and historian. He was born in Taunton, Somerset and attended at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He took the Bar, and tried to establish himself as a lawyer but he relinquished his law practice because of his dedication to and social life.

This was his first literary work, Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East, a very famous work of Eastern travel, but the author was not known, where he narrated his journey he had ten years way back in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, with his company Eton present day Lord Pollington. Elliot Warburton said it induced “the East itself in vital actual reality” and it was a brilliant achievement. Yet, his greatest piece is The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan, produced in eight volumes, which were printed from 1863 to 1887 by Blackwood, Edinburgh, one of the ultimate texts of its kind. His other work, The History, where Geoff Bocca defined as a book “by which no intelligent man can fail immediately to be fascinated, no matter to what page he might open it” was alleged to be very amicable to Lord Raglan, and unfairly adverse to Napoleon III, because the author had an utmost contention

The town of Kinglake in Victoria, Australia, and the national park are all titled in his name.
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