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Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River

The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river`s name has come to signify digression – an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a one-man canoe. At every twist and turn of his journey, from the Meander`s source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, Seal illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides. It is a journey that takes him from Turkey`s steppe interior – the stamping ground of such illustrious adventurers as Xerxes, Alexander the Great and the Crusader Kings – to the great port city of Miletus, home of the earliest Western philosophers. Along the way Seal unpicks the history of this remarkable region, but he also encounters a rich assortment of contemporary characters who reveal a rural Turkey on the cusp of change. Above all, this is the story of a river that first brought the cultures of East and West into contact – and conflict – with one another, its banks littered with the spoil of empires, the marks of war, and the detritus of recent industrialisation.At once epic, intimate and insightful, “Meander” is a brilliant evocation of a land between two worlds.

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