![]() That being said, Meander is a very good book. I devour books about Turkey whenever I can. I honestly feel it is the heart of the world with the most history and culture of anywhere on earth. It’s classified as travelogue but I’m leaning more toward “history-ogue.” The author really helps with a pronunciation guide on the first page (thank you!) and does a fabulous job of transporting his readers along his own journey with beauti Turkey is at the very top of my “most-desired places to visit” list. Turkey is at the very top of my “most-desired places to visit” list. I would recommend this to anyone who likes Türkiye, history and canoeing/kayaking.more A positive spin would have increased my rating. Overall, I loved the history, I loved the comparison from then to now, I loved the encounters. I would like to have seen more photos and more colour photos especially seeing as it is a travel journal. I wonder how much of this is due to the author appearing not to have researched or planned much for the trip or if it really was that awful. The author’s experience of the journey came across as disappointed and negative. Other than two or three lines at the end, there does not appear to be much gratification expressed. The people he encountered seemed exceptionally kind offering him rides and accommodation. I think the author may have tried to make the book more about the experience itself and less about himself. This is the part that I craved most and made me pick up the book. The traveler’s impression on the river, it’s people and surrounds. The interactions were mostly brief so you don’t get the full perspective that you would from a traveler who billets.ģ. ![]() Interacting with the locals he encounters for their insights on the river and their views. I learned so much about Türkiye’s history. Comparing the historical element of the places visited, particularly focussing on their heyday. The interactions were mostly brief so you don’t g A travel journal of a British man canoeing down the Meander River in Anatolia, Türkiye.ġ. ![]() An enchanting blend of past and present, at once epic and intimate, Meander is an atmospheric, incident-rich, and free-flowing portrayal of the essential meeting point between East and West.moreĪ travel journal of a British man canoeing down the Meander River in Anatolia, Türkiye. This rich mix creates a portrait of extraordinary insight and sweep at a time when Turkey is busy rediscovering her historic significance. In the course of his travels, Seal meets any number of people eager to share stories with a stranger. All manner of legendary adventurers, soldiers, and visionaries passed through: the Persian king Xerxes, Alexander the Great, Saint Paul, and Crusader kings, to name just a few. The city at the river's mouth, Miletus, was home to the earliest Western philosophers, while the one at its source, Dinar, commanded the mountain pass that carried the earliest roads east. In a rapidly industrializing Turkey, the river itself has been largely forgotten, but the Meander was the original conduit by which the cultures of Europe and Asia first met, then clashed. A natural storyteller, Seal takes readers from the Meander's source in the uplands of central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, with as many historical, cultural, and personal asides as there are bends in the river. A natural storyteller, Seal takes readers from the Meander's source in the uplands of central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, with as many historical, cultural, an The Meander is a river so famously winding that its name has long since come to signify digression, an approach author Jeremy Seal makes the most of while traveling the length of the river alone by canoe. The Meander is a river so famously winding that its name has long since come to signify digression, an approach author Jeremy Seal makes the most of while traveling the length of the river alone by canoe.
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