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The Scholar and the Gypsy

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
1992
Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85619-133-3 (ISBN)
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This travel book has woven together two accounts of the same experiences. The gypsy (Ryan) records the Scholar's ways; the scholar (Howard-Johnston) listens to the gypsy's talk. They observed Kurds, Turks and Georgians, market towns, villages and the omnipresent security police.
Trebizond was their starting-point, the late Roman and early medieval past of eastern Turkey was their quarry. James Howard-Johnston and Nigel Ryan first searched for three long-lost castles in remote country around the massive Bingol Dag, the Mountain of a Thousand Lakes, then ranged over the volcano-studded uplands near the Iranian and Soviet Borders where rival Armenian and Georgian princes once competed to outdo each other in the magnificence of their buildings. They observed the modern world which they encountered - Kurds, Turks and Georgians, bustling market towns, villages flanked by clusters of pyramidical piles of dung-pats and the omnipresent security police. The following year, they went to Istanbul, back to Bingol Dag, into the unspoilt interior of western Turkey where the fate of Byzantium was decided at the time of the Crusades, and finally to Bulgaria on the eve of the collapse of communism. This book is a blend of travel and history. It is woven together out of two very different accounts of the same experiences. The gypsy (Ryan) records the scholar's ways; the scholar (Howard-Johnston) listens to the gypsy's talk.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.4.1992
Zusatzinfo 8pp b&w illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 146 x 223 mm
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Europa
Reisen Reiseberichte Naher Osten
Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
ISBN-10 1-85619-133-8 / 1856191338
ISBN-13 978-1-85619-133-3 / 9781856191333
Zustand Neuware
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