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Travels in Germany and Russia - Including a Steam Voyage by the Danube and the Euxine from Vienna to Constantinople, in 1838-39 (Paperback)
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Travels in Germany and Russia - Including a Steam Voyage by the Danube and the Euxine from Vienna to Constantinople, in 1838-39 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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Sir Adolphus Slade (1804 77), British naval officer and author,
documents his experiences crossing Europe to Turkey in these
detailed and richly worded travel journals. Having joined the Royal
Navy at a young age, he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1827.
Subsequently, he was posted on several missions to Turkey and
Greece, in between which he would take the opportunity for personal
travel and writing. This is one among several works recording his
travels across Europe; he was later appointed administrative head
of the Turkish Navy (his history of the Crimean War is also
reissued in this series). This collection of accounts, first
published in 1840, has a remarkably broad scope. Slade covers
peculiarities and specificities of tradition, landscape, class,
politics and architecture, often describing encounters with
individuals. He draws comparisons with England, presenting the
reader with a double cultural insight in a fascinating example of
nineteenth-century travel writing.
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