{"product_id":"9781780601427-eothen","title":"Eothen","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTraces of Travel Brought Home from the East\u003cbr\u003eEothen, which means `news from the east  started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map, to amuse a friend who wanted some advice for his own youthful `year  off  travels, but it became one of the most influential, witty and idiosyncratic of travel  books.\u003cbr\u003eIt took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this `lively, brilliant and  rather insolent  tale.  The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the  Balkan frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into  the Near eastern cities of Jerusalem, Cairo and Damascus, are never as significant as  the conversations, chance encounters and attitudes of the author. Packed full of an infectious charm and a youthful delight at the world, it is above all things funny as it lampoons the pomposity of earnest, middle?aged travellers seeking  to establish themselves as professional authorities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449931575670,"sku":"9781780601427","price":10.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41440411.jpg?v=1779934522","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780601427-eothen","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}