A Fez of the Heart: Travels around Turkey in Search of a Hat - Softcover

Seal, Jeremy

 
9780156003933: A Fez of the Heart: Travels around Turkey in Search of a Hat
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0156003937 ISBN 13: 9780156003933
Verlag: Mariner Books, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents’ attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintessentially Turkish headgear became the key to understanding a country beset by contradictions. “A modern travel classic” (Herald Express).

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeremy Seal has written for numerous English newspapers. His first book, A Fez of the Heart, was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and short-listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His second book, The Snakebite Survivor's Club, was a New York Public Library Exceptional Book of the Year. He lives in Bath, England, with his wife and daughters.

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Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents' attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon, the quintessentially Turkish headgear became the key to understanding a country beset by contradictions. Seal's investigations took him from the fez-topped headstones of Istanbul's ghostly cemeteries to the remote town on the Black Sea where Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey, first banned the fez in 1925. From there Seal traveled around the country, visiting eastern cities where intractable fez wearers were once hanged, exploring the troubled Kurdish southeast, watching the production of fez-shaped hats for whirling dervishes in the mystical central city of Konya. The result of his unusual journey is an engaging and agile mix of history and travel, politics and reportage.

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0156003937
ISBN 13 
9780156003933
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
354
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