Travel

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by Alexander William Kinglake

Kinglake’s travels through the Ottoman Levant in the 1830s: Constantinople, the desert to Cairo, plague and Jerusalem. He deliberately left out anything improving and wrote only what struck him, which made it a model for modern travel writing.

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Reading time

About 5 hr 55 min

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #282. In the public domain in the United States.