Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses & Saints [Idioma Inglés]: A Love Affair with Turkey: Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints - Softcover

"Anatolian Days and Nights is an intimate, clear-eyed view of a fascinating country. Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner have captured the contradictions of modern day Turkey, while exposing the complex web of history at the heart of our human story. This book will make you want to grab your bags and hop the next flight to Istanbul."
-- Alan Drew, author of Gardens of Water
--- Alan Drew, author of Gardens of Water (03/01/2012)

"In their touching, often humorous memoir, Anatolian Days & Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner write vividly about their journeys through a one of the world's most vibrant countries. The landscape and people slip beneath your skin until you are no longer sure whether you've become a part of Turkey or whether Turkey has become a part of you. As a frequent visitor to Turkey, I applaud Stocke and Brenner for skillfully weaving a tale that leaves me yearning to return."
-- Harriet Mayor Fulbright, Widow of Senator J. William Fulbright, Founder of the Fulbright Scholarship Program and President of Harriet Fulbright College
--- Harriet Mayor Fulbright, Widow of Senator J. William Fulbright, Founder of the Fulbright Scholarship Program and President of Harriet Fulbright College (03/01/2012)

"Compassionate, nuanced, tender and informative, this book will change your perspective on contemporary Turkey." - Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Black Milk.
--- Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Black Milk. (03/01/2012)

Anatolian Days and Nights is an intimate, clear-eyed view of a fascinating country. Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner have captured the contradictions of modern day Turkey, while exposing the complex web of history at the heart of our human story. This book will make you want to grab your bags and hop the next flight to Istanbul.
Alan Drew, author of Gardens of Water
-- Alan Drew, author of Gardens of Water (03/01/2012)"

In their touching, often humorous memoir, Anatolian Days & Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner write vividly about their journeys through a one of the world s most vibrant countries. The landscape and people slip beneath your skin until you are no longer sure whether you ve become a part of Turkey or whether Turkey has become a part of you. As a frequent visitor to Turkey, I applaud Stocke and Brenner for skillfully weaving a tale that leaves me yearning to return.
Harriet Mayor Fulbright, Widow of Senator J. William Fulbright, Founder of the Fulbright Scholarship Program and President of Harriet Fulbright College
-- Harriet Mayor Fulbright, Widow of Senator J. William Fulbright, Founder of the Fulbright Scholarship Program and President of Harriet Fulbright College (03/01/2012)"

"Filled with smiles, laughter, dancing, whirling; exotic foods I want to taste and exquisite crafts I want to buy. Joy and Angie walk us down ancient paths where ghosts of the past still dwell; they lead us into cooking kitchens where eggplant and lamb fill today with magic blends of herbs and spices. The authors love of the culture, then and now its joy, its challenges, its exuberance is contagious. After reading this book, I have moved Turkey to the top of my list."
- Rita Golden Gelman, author, Tales of a Female Nomad, Living at Large in the World.
--- Rita Golden Gelman, author, Tales of a Female Nomad, Living at Large in the World. (03/01/2012)"

Compassionate, nuanced, tender and informative, this book will change your perspective on contemporary Turkey. - Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Black Milk.
--- Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Black Milk. (03/01/2012)"

When Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner meet on the balcony of a guesthouse in a small resort town on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, they think they have only a mutual friend and a summer dream in common. Soon, they discover a shared love of travel, history, culture, cuisine, and literature; and they begin a ten-year odyssey through Turkey.

Inspired by the poetry of thirteenth-century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi, Brenner and Stocke journey to central Turkey for the Whirling Dervishes Festival. A visit to a Turkish bath becomes a lesson in sensuality and patience. Their interest in the cults of the mother goddess takes them to Ephesus, the Black Sea, and east into Mesopotamia. Through intuition, experience, and a bit of serendipity, Brenner and Stocke find excitement, friendship, and love, and learn how and why Turkey—a country that holds the keys to Western Civilization—continues to grow in world importance.

Travel writing with literary value, Anatolian Days and Nights will appeal to armchair travelers as well as those about to hit the road.