Meander
Subtitle: east to west along a Turkish river
By: Jeremy Seal
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780701183479; 9781448139224
Subjects: Travel; Canoes and canoeing; Description and travel; Kanuwandern
Description: "The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression -- an invitation Jeremy Seal wholeheartedly embraces while traveling its length in a one-man canoe. At every twist and turn of his arduous but exhilarating journey, from the Meander's source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, Seal illuminates his account with cultural, historical, and personal asides. It is a journey that takes him from the stamping ground of such illustrious adventurers as Alexander the Great and the Crusader Kings to the great port city of Miletus, home of the earliest Western philosophers -- but Seal also encounters a rich assortment of contemporary characters who reveal a rural Turkey on the cusp of change. Together they tell the story of a river that first brought the cultures of East and West into contact -- and conflict -- with one another, its banks now littered with the spoil of empire, the marks of war, and the detritus of recent industrialisation. . . . 'Meander' is . . . [an] evocation of a land between two worlds." -- Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-389) and index.

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