Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastNorthwestern University Press, 1997 - 245 من الصفحات In the autumn of 1834, Alexander Kinglake and John Savile set out together for Turkey and the Levant. When Savile was summoned home Kinglake, accompanied only by his guide and interpreter, went on by ship to Cyprus and Beirut, then to the Holy Land, Cairo, and Damascus. On his own in a foreign world, Kinglake used the solitary travel for prolonged self-scrutiny, and ultimately for liberation. Eothen has the freshness of the immediate and the new. Kinglake kept it free of the details of geography, history, science, politics, religion, and statistics; it is far less about the countries and the cities he passes through that it is about himself. This is what makes Eothen a modern travel book, possibly the first and certainly one of the greatest of its kind. |
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CHAPTER I Over the border | 1 |
CHAPTER II Turkish traveling | 11 |
CHAPTER III Constantinople | 23 |
CHAPTER IV The Troad | 31 |
CHAPTER V Infidel Smyrna | 37 |
CHAPTER VI Greek mariners | 47 |
CHAPTER VII Cyprus | 55 |
CHAPTER VIII Lady Hester Stanhope | 61 |
CHAPTER XVI Terra Santa | 121 |
CHAPTER XVII The desert | 137 |
CHAPTER XVIII Cairo and the plague | 159 |
CHAPTER XIX The Pyramids | 181 |
CHAPTER XX The Sphinx | 185 |
CHAPTER XXI Cairo to Suez | 187 |
CHAPTER XXII Suez | 195 |
CHAPTER XXIII Suez to Gaza | 201 |
CHAPTER IX The Sanctuary | 83 |
CHAPTER X The monks of Palestine | 87 |
CHAPTER XI Galilee | 93 |
CHAPTER XII My first bivouac | 97 |
CHAPTER XIII The Dead Sea | 105 |
CHAPTER XIV The black tents | 111 |
CHAPTER XV Passage of the Jordan | 115 |
CHAPTER XXIV Gaza to Nablus | 207 |
CHAPTER XXV Mariam | 213 |
CHAPTER XXVI The prophet Damoor | 221 |
CHAPTER XXVII Damascus | 227 |
CHAPTER XXVIII Pass of the Lebanon | 235 |
CHAPTER XXIX Surprise of Satalieh | 239 |
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