by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Spiritualism · Faith and Doubt · The Afterlife

Abstract

Doyle’s travel memoir of his 1920-21 lecture tour to Australia and New Zealand to spread the spiritualist message, undertaken with his wife and children aboard the Naldera. Combines shipboard reflections on religion, empire, and the war with accounts of seances and psychic phenomena encountered en route.

Capitoli / Chapters

Readability (prose)-26.7 Flesch ease32.9 FK grade35.6 Fog25% complex64 words/sent

Connections

Forms & Genres: Travel Writing, Essay, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Spiritualism, Empire and Imperialism, Faith and Doubt, Immortality of the Soul, History Motifs: Sea, Ship, Journey, Sea and Voyage Historical References: British Empire, First World War, Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution Settings: Africa, Egypt, Orient, South Africa Archetypes: Pilgrim Topoi: Open Road Homecoming, Journey of Life