Author: BALFOUR, PATRICK [LORD KINROSS]
Title: Within the Taurus : A Journey in Asiatic Turkey
Description: London, John Murray. 1954, 1st UK Ed.. Hardcover. Book, This book is the story of a journey though Asia Minor in 1951. It focuses on the new Turkey that emerged at the end of World War II. "It aspires to pick up, if only in superficial fashion, a few of those threads which the nineteenth-century travellers so assiduously gathered and which were then so abruptly dropped" 192p.Frontis, map, plates index.Neat tight copy with a delightful donor inscription on ffep. Very Good +/No Jacket.

Keywords: Turkey Description & Travel Black Sea Trebizond Pontos Armenia Cappadocia Kurdistan Konya Pontos Asia Minor


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