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Adventures During A Journey Overland To India, By Way Of Egypt, Syria And The Holy Land (Volume I)

Adventures During A Journey Overland To India, By Way Of Egypt, Syria And The Holy Land (Volume I)

Skinner, Thomas

Paperback

Bible StudiesGeneral Middle EastGeneral World History

ISBN10: 935450860X
ISBN13: 9789354508608
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before steamships made passage routine, an overland journey to india demanded stamina, curiosity, and nerve. In Adventures During A Journey Overland To India, By Way Of Egypt, Syria And The Holy Land (Volume I), Thomas Skinner offers a vivid 19th century travelogue of routes few Britons knew first-hand. Turn the page; start walking. This unabridged travel narrative follows the opening stages of travelogue volume one as Skinner moves through an egypt and syria journey and into holy land pilgrimage travel, observing landscapes, roads, lodging, languages, and the practical negotiations that kept travellers safe. His observations cover ports, deserts, and cities, with attention to local guides, transport, and the traveller's shifting sense of home across unfamiliar territories. Written in the cadence of victorian era travel, it blends scene-setting with sharp-eyed notes that now read as primary source history: the textures of ottoman levant travel, the shifting boundaries of faith and empire, and the everyday mechanics behind british empire travel. For modern armchair travel reading, the appeal lies in immediacy: a traveller thinking aloud, measuring distance, risk, and wonder in real time. For collectors of grand tour travel writing and classic travel literature, it stands as a document of a world on the cusp of change, preserving viewpoints, assumptions, and encounters that shaped British understandings of the East. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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