Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home From the East [Audiobook] download free by Alexander William Kinglake
- Listen audiobook: Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home From the East
- Author: Alexander William Kinglake
- Release date: 2015/9/22
- Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS INC.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780486790626
- Rating: 9.06 of 10
- Votes: 898
- Review by: Chris Beattie
- Review rating: 7.21 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/22
- Duration: 3H0M17S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-29
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, OGG, WAV, AU, MP3, MPEG4, FLAC (compression TAR.BZ2, RAR, ZIP, LHA, ACE)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M50S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 'My favorite travel book. Sparkling, ironic, and terrific fun.' - Jan MorrisEothen ('From the East') recaptures a bold young Englishman's exploits in the Middle East during the 1830s. Alexander William Kinglake recounts his rambles through the Balkans, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in a style radically different from other travel books of his era. Rather than dwelling on art or monuments, Kinglake's captivating narrative focuses on the natives and their cities. His adventures ― populated by Bedouins, pashas, slave-traders, monks, pilgrims, and other colorfully drawn personalities ― include crossing the desolate Sinai with a four-camel caravan and a sojourn in plague-ridden Cairo. A contemporary of Gladstone at Eton and of Tennyson and Thackeray at Cambridge, Kinglake offers a frankly imperialistic worldview. 'As I felt so have I written,' he declares in his preface, and his forthright expressions of his thoughts and impressions range in mood from confessional, to comic, to serious, to romantic. Victorian readers were captivated by Kinglake's chatty tone and his uncompromising honesty, and two centuries later this remarkable travelogue remains funny, fresh, and original.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classic Travel Writing, Guidebooks, Travel Writing, Memoirs
- Download servers: FileServe, KickAssTorents, FreakShare, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, Torrent, 4Shared, MyUpload. Compressed in TAR.BZ2, RAR, ZIP, LHA, ACE
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.30 USD
- Dimensions: 127x203x17.78mm
- Weight: 181.44g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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