Journey To Kars
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the grand tradition of the solitary Victorian traveller, Journey to Kars chronicles Philip Glazebrook's remarkable overland expedition through Turkey, retracing the routes of 19th-century British adventurers who pushed ever eastward toward the forgotten Armenian city of Kars. Armed with the journals and memoirs of his predecessors, Glazebrook navigates crumbling Ottoman landscapes, remote Anatolian highlands, and the haunted crossroads of empires, all while measuring the vast distance between the confident imperial world those earlier travellers inhabited and the uncertain modern one he must cross alone. The work is a masterful meditation on travel writing itself — simultaneously a homage to and a quiet dismantling of the heroic Victorian travel narrative. Glazebrook writes with dry, sardonic wit and a scholar's precision, illuminating themes of cultural encounter, historical memory, and the irreversible passage of empire. His prose carries an elegiac undercurrent that transforms a physical journey into a profound act of literary archaeology, leaving the reader to wonder whether it is the destination or the ghost of the traveller that is truly being sought.
Author: Philip Glazebrook
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Viking
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the grand tradition of the solitary Victorian traveller, Journey to Kars chronicles Philip Glazebrook's remarkable overland expedition through Turkey, retracing the routes of 19th-century British adventurers who pushed ever eastward toward the forgotten Armenian city of Kars. Armed with the journals and memoirs of his predecessors, Glazebrook navigates crumbling Ottoman landscapes, remote Anatolian highlands, and the haunted crossroads of empires, all while measuring the vast distance between the confident imperial world those earlier travellers inhabited and the uncertain modern one he must cross alone. The work is a masterful meditation on travel writing itself — simultaneously a homage to and a quiet dismantling of the heroic Victorian travel narrative. Glazebrook writes with dry, sardonic wit and a scholar's precision, illuminating themes of cultural encounter, historical memory, and the irreversible passage of empire. His prose carries an elegiac undercurrent that transforms a physical journey into a profound act of literary archaeology, leaving the reader to wonder whether it is the destination or the ghost of the traveller that is truly being sought.