Biographical Study Of A. W. Kinglake
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781419110030
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: The fourth decade of the deceased century dawned on a procession of Oriental pilgrims, variously qualified or disqualified to hold the gorgeous East in fee, who, with bakshish in their purses, a theory in their brains, an unfilled diary-book in their portmanteaus, sought out the Holy Land, the Sinai peninsula, the valley of the Nile, sometimes even Armenia and the Monte Santo, and returned home to emit their illustrated and mapped octavos.