Search Results for ‘Turkey’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 14 matches found

Danziger's Travels

After walking and hitch-hiking through southern Turkey and the ayatollah's Iran, Danziger entered Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and spent two months dodging Russian...

In Search of the Trojan War

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...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Snows of Kilimanjaro contains some of Ernest Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular early works of fiction. In all these stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live...

The Way of the World

Part candid description of a road journey, part a meditation on travel, this is the tale of a life-enhancing journey taken in the 1950s from Geneva to the Khyber Pass on very little money. When Nicolas...

In Search of Eden

'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...

Magic Bus

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...

Portrait of A Turkish Family

"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

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

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...

A Traveller's History of Turkey

This concise account covers everything from the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilisation of Catal Huyuk 7000 years before Christ, the treasures of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Selcuks...

A Short History of Byzantium

In 330 AD, the first Christian Emperor, Constantine the Great, moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople. This concise book, an abridged version of the author's acclaimed...

Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

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...

Istanbul: Memories of a City

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

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...