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

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

Skinner, Thomas

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General AsiaGeneral EuropeGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354508618
ISBN13: 9789354508615
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Follow the long road to India, the way Victorians once did: by river, desert, and ancient cities. History breathes on every page. In this complete Volume II travelogue, Thomas Skinner continues his historical travel narrative as a Victorian adventure memoir, charting the later stages of an overland journey to India via Egypt and Syria and the Holy Land. The focus is travel itself: routes chosen, landscapes crossed, and the constant negotiations of language, faith, and authority. Read it as an intimate Holy Land pilgrimage account, an absorbing record of Egypt and Syria travels, and a window on the Ottoman era Levant at a moment of change. Skinner writes as a British traveller, alert to the small details that decide a day on the road: permissions, provisions, companions, weather. The result is immediate and human, not merely picturesque. Casual readers will enjoy the momentum; historians will notice how travel and empire meet in ordinary conversations and observations along the route to India, too. As primary source travel history, it also illuminates the colonial India travel route and the assumptions that shaped British imperial travel writing, making it essential for students of nineteenth-century mobility as well as for armchair travel reading. For collectors, it sits confidently within any classic travel literature collection, pairing period voice with enduring curiosity. 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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