A Fez of the Heart

Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat

Jeremy Seal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

1996
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-34362-6 (ISBN)

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‘It was January 1993 when a kindly but disbelieving Turk in an ill-fitting suit and a homburg approached me as our flight was called at Heathrow Airport . . . ’

Jeremy Seal set out across Turkey, in the extremes of winter, to trace the astonishing history of a cone-shaped hat. He soon saw the fez as the key by which Turkey, beset by contradiction, might be understood.

‘Almost all you could ever need to know about modern Turkey, modern Turks and their one-time headgear. Extremely well written and very funny’ Eric Newby

‘Original and beautifully observed, the book reads like Chatwin with jokes’ Independent

‘Intelligent, funny and informative travelogue . . . Not so much a book about hats as a skilled and entertaining portrait of modern Turkey’ Sunday Times

‘Armchair travellers can rarely have had such a delightfully eccentric guide as Jeremy Seal . . . weaves history, personal and illuminating observation into a sprightly seamless whole’ Scotland on Sunday

Jeremy Seal is a writer and broadcaster. His first book, A Fez of the Heart, was shortlisted for the 1995 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is also the author of The Snakebite Survivors’ Club and The Wreck at Sharpnose Point and was the presenter of Channel 4’s Wreck Detectives. He lives in Bath with his wife and daughters.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.1.1996
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	336 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	0-330-34362-9 / 0330343629
ISBN-13	978-0-330-34362-6 / 9780330343626
Zustand	Neuware