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| Title: | Porcelain Moon & Pomegranates
: A Woman's Trek Through Turkey |
| Author: | Üstün Bilgen-Reinart |
| ISBN: | 1550026585 : 9781550026580 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Weight: | .387 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - January 2007 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Travel writing: Turkey |
For millennia the land now called Turkey has been at the crossroads of history. A bridge between Europe and Asia, between West and East, between Christianity and Islam, the peninsula also known as Anatolia, the place where the sun rises, is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions on the planet. In this unique blend of memoir and travel literature, Üstün Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country, whisking the reader on a journey through time, memory, and space. She searches deep into the roots of her own ancestry and uncovers a family secret, breaks taboos in a nation that still takes tradition very seriously, and navigates through dangerous territory that sees her investigating brothels in Ankara, probing honour murders in Sanliurfa, encountering Kurds in the remote southeast, and witnessing the rape of the earth by a gold mining company in Bergama.
Ancyra, Odd Name For an Inland City; Mountain Mother; Sacred Women; Gilded Icons Wrapped in Fine Cloth; One Great God; Rising Waters; Deadly Honour; The Curse of Dionysos; Memory is For People.
