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In 1835 Alexander William Kinglake was crossing the Sinai Peninsula from Gaza to Cairo when he encountered an unnamed Englishman travelling in the opposite direction. The two small caravans stopped for a brief exchange, ‘I daresay you wish to know how the plague is going on at Cairo?’ the other Englishman offered. This was valuableContinue reading “Eothen: Idle Wanderings in the Time of Plague, Alexander William Kinglake’s 1835 Journey of the Eastern Mediterranean”