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Alexander William Kinglake

Born

in Taunton, Somerset, England

August 05, 1809

Died

January 02, 1891

Website

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Genre

Travel, History, Science

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Alexander William Kinglake was an English travel writer and historian.

He was born near Taunton, Somerset and educated at Eton College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1837, and built up a thriving legal practice, which in 1856 he abandoned in order to devote himself to literature and public life.

His first literary venture had been Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East, (London: J. Ollivier, 1844), a very popular work of Eastern travel, apparently first published anonymously, in which he described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington. Elliot Warburton said it evoked "the East itself in vital actual reality" and it was instantly suc ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 454 ratings · 58 reviews · 121 distinct works • Similar authors

	Eothen – Travel in the East 3.61 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 1844 — 449 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The invasion of the Crimea: its origin, and an account of its progress down to the death of Lord Raglan 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003 — 127 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invasion of the Crimea Volume 7: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. Volume 7 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. Volume 1 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan, Volume 8 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. Volume 2 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. Volume 6 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invasion of the Crimea Volume 4 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. Volume 3 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battle of Balaclava it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I did not say "alas!" (nobody ever does that I know of, though the word is so frequently written).”
― Alexander William Kinglake, Eothen – Travel in the East

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“A scrutiny so minute as to bring an object under an untrue angle of vision, is a poorer guide to a man's judgment than a sweeping glance which sees things in their true proportion.”
― Alexander William Kinglake, The Invasion of the Crimea Volume 4

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