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Chargement... Meander: East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish Riverpar Jeremy Seal
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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, Meanderis a brilliant evocation of a land between two worlds. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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He takes a gentle and relaxed approach to the journey down this river valley, taking time to meet the people and characters along the route. It is a place that is rich in history as well, from people such as Alexander the Great to the knights on the crusades.
In parts this book is fascinating, when he is meeting and interacting with the people of the valley. He writes about the the state of the river and the problems that are caused by pollution and extraction of the water, which has brought the river down to a trickle in parts.
There are one or two amusing bits in the book, but i felt that there was too much history in the book, rather than the travel, and for that reason it doesn't sparkle as a good travel book should. ( )