EOTHEN; or Traces of Travel brought home from the East
by [KINGLAKE, Alexander William.]
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London: John Ollivier, 1845. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 418. Bound in later 3/4 brown morocco (rubbed along the hinges and at the extremities), illustrated with a folding hand-colored lithographed frontis. & one colored plate. Abbey, Travel, 362; Blackmer 911; Ibrahim-Hilmy I 342; Tobler p. 157. "In August 1834, Kinglake set out on an eighteen-month odyssey through Europe and the Ottoman empire. After encountering plague in Constantinople, he travelled to Smyrna, Cyprus, Beirut, the Holy Land, and Jerusalem, before crossing the Sinai Desert to Cairo. Following three weeks in Egypt, he returned north through Damascus and Asia Minor then via Athens, Corfu, Rome, and Turin to London. On 5 May 1837, Kinglake was called to the bar but...continued to travel, visiting Switzerland in 1843, and the following year Eothen, his account of the 1834-5 Turkish adventures, was published and included two of his own watercolours."-ODNB.
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- Title
- EOTHEN; or Traces of Travel brought home from the East
- Author
- [KINGLAKE, Alexander William.]
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Edition
- Second edn
- Publisher
- John Ollivier
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1845
- Keywords
- travel
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