Meander: East to West along a Turkish River [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Seal, Jeremy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701183470 ISBN 13: 9780701183479

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2012

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Críticas:

"This is a wonderful book by a wonderful writer. Droll, surprising and moving, it describes a knowingly wandering journey along the River Meander from source to sea, and down through Turkish history from antiquity to the contemporary" (Robert Macfarlane)

"It's an elegant and fitting tribute to the most famous river you've never heard of" (Dan Linstead Wanderlust)

"The eccentric response of the locals and the river's idyllic scenery - lily pads, water snakes, storks and pelicans - combine with Seal's faultless historical tour-guiding to create a charming, enviable journey. Seal's book delivers on its promise of an unpredictable journey through an unfamiliar place. It's an impressive piece of old fashioned travelling" (Brian Schofield Sunday Times)

"Seal loves Turkey with puppylike enthusiasm. Meander is funny.an excellent introduction to Turkish history for anyone planning a summer holiday" (Sara Wheeler Guardian)

"Writer and river are happily matched. History is his travelling companion" (Anthony Sattin Spectator)

Reseña del editor:

The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a one-man canoe. At every twist and turn of his journey, from the Meander's source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, Seal illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides.

It is a journey that takes him from Turkey's steppe interior - the stamping ground of such illustrious adventurers as Xerxes, Alexander the Great and the Crusader Kings - to the great port city of Miletus, home of the earliest Western philosophers. Along the way Seal unpicks the history of this remarkable region, but he also encounters a rich assortment of contemporary characters who reveal a rural Turkey on the cusp of change. Above all, this is the story of a river that first brought the cultures of East and West into contact - and conflict - with one another, its banks littered with the spoil of empires, the marks of war, and the detritus of recent industrialisation.

At once epic, intimate and insightful, Meander is a brilliant evocation of a land between two worlds.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0701183470
• ISBN 13: 9780701183479
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416