Author: GLAZEBROOK,PHILIP
Title: Journey to Kars : A Modern Traveller in the Ottoman Lands
Description: London, Penguin. 1984. (ISBN: 0140095330) Pbk. Book, 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 in their footsteps. His destination was Kars, the 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 to Trebizond, Istanbul and the Balkan capitals - this book recounts his adventures.Fascinating exploration through the old Ottoman territories from Belgrade to Kars on the Russian border - full of interesting observations of people and places,past and present. 246p. bibliography. Near Fine.

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