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The dancing girls are very numerous, not only in Palestine, but in Egypt. They are the same odious class all through.... "Their faces are never covered... They are stockingless... Stripping off their shoes when the music begins, their hips suddenly rise up, their bodies sway either way..."
-from "Chapter VII: A Night in Jericho"
Before the Hardy Boys and the Bobsey Twins, there was Walter, who traveled to Egypt, Damascus, Samaria, Constantinople, Athens, and other exotic destinations, and regaled the world with his adventures abroad in Walter's Tours in the East. This, the second book in the series, first published in 1863, "takes young travellers into Jerusalem, shows them the city and its environs and holy places, gives them a tour to the Dead Sea and the Jordan, and makes them acquainted with the sacred localities in that region." This early example of children's fiction offers an illuminating look at 19th-century Western attitudes toward the East.
American writer and reverend DANIEL C. EDDY served as chaplain of the Senate in 1856. He also wrote a series of books about the fictional Percy family's travels in Europe, including A Visit to Ireland (1859) and Through Scotland and England (1859).
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Laura Garay
reviewed Walter's Tours In The East on September 30, 2014
Walter's Tours In The East
So this British Muslim guy goes on a holiday - and writes a book.
The chapter titles and subheadings are o so groovy, but the text ..
I read this book for the bits on Iran. If this is what you, too, are interested in, you can save yourself the trouble and get an idea of the tone and background research of the author-traveller by simply reading this quote: "I must have looked the very embodiment of sophistication as I walked around the [Persepolis] ruins, sucking on the straw to my mango juice, wondering if this wouldn't be a wonderful site to film an Indiana Jones movie".
Some of the ponderings on Islam-abroad (surely he's the one from abroad as far as Islam goes?) are interesting. But since the content about stuff-I-know-about was so uninformed, it's difficult to really know how much value to place on it.
For me, this book felt a little too like a seriously updated version of the colonial British travel memoirs: viewing the natives and their (often unpleasant, sometimes charming) habits from the outside; with more or less lengthy digressions on the authors pet topics (in this case, Islam)
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