Crossing the Save from Semlin to Belgrade, Kinglake leaves wheel-going Europe behind. He rides through Turkey to Constantinople and the plain of Troy, sails with Greek mariners, calls on the eccentric Lady Hester Stanhope in her Lebanese retreat, tours the rival monasteries of Palestine, camps by the Dead Sea and crosses the desert to Egypt.
First published in 1844, it set the tone for the personal, ironic travel book that Victorian readers came to love. Download the free EPUB.