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PREFACEADDJlIi:SSIi:D BYTHE AUTHOR TO O~£ OF' HIS FRIENDS.V HhN you first entertained the idea of travel1ing in theEast, you asked me to send you an outline of the tourwhich I had made, in order that you might the better beable to choose a route for yourself. In answer to this request,I gave YOll a large French map, on which the ,courseof my journeys had been carefully marked; but I did notconceal from myse14 that this was rather a dry mo~e for aman to adopt, when he v:ished to impart the results of hisexperience to a dear and intimate friend. Now, long beforethe period of your planning an Oriental tOllT, I hadintended to write some account of my Eastern Travels.I had, indeed~ begttn the task, and had failed; I had begunit a seconu time, and failing again, had abandoned my at·tempt with a. sensation of utter distaste. I was unable tospeak out, and chiefly, I think, for this reason-that I knewnot to whom I was speaking. It might be YOll, or, perhapTable of Contents CONTENTS~; "lO~; PREFACE V; CHAP I OVF" TilE DORDER 1; rIo JOURN'EY rBOb~ BELGRADE TO CONI;TANTIl>OPL~ 11; III CONSTANTINOPLE 23; IV TJi:E TROAD 31; V IN}j'lDI:L SlI'fyltNA 37; VI GREEK MAR1~·ER9 47; VII CYI'RUS ~5; VIII LADY HEI!l'£n S'l'ANlIOPW;; 62; IX THE SANCTUARY 84-; X TtlE lfO;'KS OT TtlE 1IoLY LAND 87; XL }'RO!)I NAZARJ:TH TO TIBERIAe 93; XII My FIBb"T BIVOUAC 97; XIII THE DEAD Sli!A 104; XIV THl! BlAC K TE::iT9 110; XV PAeeAG~ OF l'ItE JORDAN 113; XVI TERRA SANTA · 118; XVlI THli; Dw;;sERT 133; XVIII C,lRO AND THE PLAQUE 154; XIX TH ~ PYR "MinE 176; XX THE "Sl'HYNXo 170; XXI CAlBO TO SUEZ 191; XXII Su~z 19S; XXII[ SUEZ TO GAZA LQ3; XXIV GA2iA TO N As('O'U'

A fascinating account (first published 1844) of the author's journey through Turkey and the Middle East which "records his impressions with a frankness and wonderment which make his writing as idiosyncratically fresh and witty as when it first appeared.(a) beautifully evocative and seminal work of Victorian travel writing" This text is based on the last revised edition of 1864. 261p. maps.

"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.

Alexander William Kinglake was an English travel writer and historian. He was born near Taunton, Somerset, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1837, and built up a thriving legal practice, which, in 1856, he abandoned to devote himself to literature and public life. His first literary venture was Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East (London: J. Ollivier, 1844), a very popular work of Eastern travel, apparently first published anonymously, in which he described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington. Elliot Warburton said it evoked "the East itself in vital actual reality" and it was instantly successful. However, his magnum opus was THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan, in 8 volumes, published from 1863 to 1887 by Blackwood, Edinburgh, one of the most effective works of its class. The History, which Geoff Bocca describes as a book "by which no intelligent man can fail immediately to be fascinated, no matter to what page he might open it" has been accused of being too favourable to Lord Raglan and unduly hostile to Napoleon III for whom the author had an extreme aversion. The town of Kinglake in Victoria, Australia, and the adjacent national park are named after him. A Whig, Kinglake was elected at the 1857 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MP) for Bridgwater, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1852. He was returned at next two general elections, but the result of the 1868 general election in Bridgwater was voided on petition on 26 February 1869. No by-election was held, and after a Royal Commission found that there had been extensive corruption, the town was disenfranchised in 1870.

Hardback, decorative paper covered boards. 25.5 x 15cm. 31pp, [1]. Text illustrated with ten wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings. Number 61 of an edition of 300 copies. Tiny mark on colophon otherwise a fine copy.