CHAPTER I—­OVER THE BORDER
At Semlin I still was encompassed by the scenes and
the sounds of familiar life; the din of a busy world
still vexed and cheered me; the unveiled faces of
women st...
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Though Alexander William Kinglake's ambition was to be remembered for his eight-volume history of the Crimean War, his fame rests on Eothen (1844), a classic account of his travels in the Near East in...
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In 1843 publisher John Murray made what he was later to call his greatest error of professional judgment: he rejected the manuscript of a travel book by a London barrister named Alexander William King...
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Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
Alexander William Kinglake