eBooks - Travel - Travel Literature - A. W. Kinglake - Eothen
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Eothen Summary
| I went on and came near to those waters of death. They stretched deeply into the southern desert, and before me, and all around, as far away as the eye could follow, blank hills piled high over hills, pale, yellow, and naked, walled up in her tomb for ever the dead and damned Gomorrah. There was no fly that hummed in the forbidden air, but instead a deep stillness; no grass grew from the earth, no weed peered through the void sand; but in mockery of all life there were trees borne down by Jordan in some ancient flood, and these, grotesquely planted upon the forlorn shore, spread out their grim skeleton arms, all scorched and charred to blackness by the heats of the long silent years. |
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| By horseback, camelback, and sea vessel Alexander William Kinglake takes the reader through the Middle East. With intelligence, confidence, and a sense of humor he relates his travels through Constantinople, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus,and the Holy Land. In Cairo he gives a detailed account of the plague and the utter fear everyone felt. He looks around him with aristocratic distance, but also with a diplomatic and learned insight used for sustained self-examination in this solitary journey. Instead of geographical, historic, scientific, and political details, this journal is more about his own personal scrutiny. It is written in the form of a spirited letter to a good friend--straightforward, surprising, and personal. That quality is what makes Eothen a modern travelogue, possibly the first and indisputably one of the best. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable. |
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