Search Results for ‘Turkey’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Classic Travel Literature’ - 6 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: | 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...
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: | Nicolas Bouvier |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 156275 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
| Author: | Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Series: | Penguin Great Journeys |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 154257 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
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