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'Quite the most original travel book for some
time' — Observer
For Victorian travellers a trip to Turkey was a leap
into the dark of Islam. Fascinated by their accounts of
the far-flung, down-at-heel Ottoman Empire, novelist
and traveller Philip Glazebrook followed their
footsteps. His destination was Kars, the legendary city
within view of Mount Ararat where the Ark was
stranded.
Through the old Serbian and Greek provinces and
islands, through the ruined cities of Asia Minor, to
Kars and then back by Trezibond, Istanbul and the
Balkan capitals — his elegant, entertaining and
thoughtful account is a quite remarkable travel book.
4His book is the most engaging of its kind that I've read
in years' — Sunday Telegraph
"Full of insights as well as sights, delightfully written'
— Guardian
The cover shows a mid nineteenth-century engraving of Kars by S. Cholet
after a drawing by Count B. de la Bourdonnaye, in the Bibliotheque des Arts
Décoratifs, Paris (photo:...
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Fülszöveg
'Quite the most original travel book for some
time' — Observer
For Victorian travellers a trip to Turkey was a leap
into the dark of Islam. Fascinated by their accounts of
the far-flung, down-at-heel Ottoman Empire, novelist
and traveller Philip Glazebrook followed their
footsteps. His destination was Kars, the legendary city
within view of Mount Ararat where the Ark was
stranded.
Through the old Serbian and Greek provinces and
islands, through the ruined cities of Asia Minor, to
Kars and then back by Trezibond, Istanbul and the
Balkan capitals — his elegant, entertaining and
thoughtful account is a quite remarkable travel book.
4His book is the most engaging of its kind that I've read
in years' — Sunday Telegraph
"Full of insights as well as sights, delightfully written'
— Guardian
The cover shows a mid nineteenth-century engraving of Kars by S. Cholet
after a drawing by Count B. de la Bourdonnaye, in the Bibliotheque des Arts
Décoratifs, Paris (photo: Jean-Loup Charmet, tinted by Dennis Hawkins)
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