Search Results for ‘Turkey’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 14 matches found
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| Author: | Jeremy Seal |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 51858 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This is Jeremy Seal's quest, by means of a fez, for the heart of a country culturally and spiritually at odds with herself. It is also a very skilled and entertaining portrait of modern Turkey, as the...
| Author: | James Weir |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 159134 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
'As a young man, I walked for a time in paradise.' In the summer of 1977 James Weir came upon a walled garden in the south-east of Turkey that seemed to speak to him of something deep in our collective...
| Author: | Irfan Orga |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 110034 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
"Portrait of a Turkish Family" is a masterpiece of memoir writing, justly deserving of it's reprinting here by publishers Eland. Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman...
The Caravan Moves On - Three Weeks among Turkish Nomads
| Author: | Irfan Orga |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 110035 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
In the “Caravan Moves On”, Irfan Orga journeys to the centre of Turkey to stay with the Yürük nomads in the High Taurus mountains.
He learns their traditions, listens to their legends, and lives to...
The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below
| Author: | Daniel Allen |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 167995 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The wellspring of “The Sky Above, the Kingdom Below” is the remarkable 17th century figure, Thomas Coryate, unofficial jester to the court of King James I, associate of John Donne, Ben Johnson and Inigo...
| Author: | Jill Dudley |
| Publisher: | Orpington Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 161433 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Jill Dudley’s second book Holy Smoke! is another personal triumph. Jill Dudley sets out to explore the pagan past and early Christianity, as well as Judaism and Islam. Facts and legends abound as she...
Turkish Coast Through Writers' Eyes
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 167356 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Turkish Coast is an anthology of writings about Turkey’s south-western shore through the eyes of the authors, diarists and famous observers who have been there. Rich in antiquity and still a comparatively...
| Author: | Michael Wood |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Catalogue number: | 103114 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Michael Wood examines whether the legendary figures of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Paris and Helen, actually existed and whether events such as the siege of Troy ever occured. New evidence uncovered at...
| Author: | Rory MacLean |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 158009 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap...
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
| Author: | Jason Goodwin |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 79542 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The history of the Ottoman Empire all too often seems to be the preserve of academics. Jason Goodwin ignores this convention, preferring a dramatic and personal approach and bringing the Ottoman Empire...
| Author: | Orhan Pamuk |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 143846 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Orhan Pamuk’s extraordinarily beautiful “Istanbul” won the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature- once you have picked up and read this brilliant work, you will be in no doubt as to why it did.
Arguably Turkey...
The Liquid Continent - Volume III - Istanbul
| Author: | Nicholas Woodsworth |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 163404 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This wonderful book is part of Nicholas Woodsworth’s “Liquid Continent” trilogy, combining travel narrative, history and a reflection on the essence of life in the Mediterranean.
Volume III, the final...
| Author: | Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Series: | Penguin Great Journeys |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 154257 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
In "Life on the Golden Horn", Mary Wortley Montagu recounts her adventures on the journey into the Ottoman Empire in the early 1700s. Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what...
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident
| Author: | Geert Mak |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 173581 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident is Geert Mak’s tale of Istanbul’s past and present as represented by the Galata Bridge, which has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century and...
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