A Traveller on Horseback: In Eastern Turkey and Iran

by Christina Dodwell

Book Overview

In the late 1980s, famous British explorer Christina Dodwell moves from a Greek Easter into a chilly Eastern Turkish spring, not improved for the cold and hungry traveller by the fairly strict... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340412682
• ISBN13: 9780340412688
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dodging the revolutionary guards

From the title, one might expect the author to be making a long horseback ride through Turkey and Iran. Actually, the book is about riding buses across the countryside and taking a horseback ride whenever possible. It isn't until the last quarter of the book that an extensive ride, where the author actually purchases a horse, takes place. This is a little less romantic, but the adventures on the bus are very interesting. The primary theme is dodging Iranian revolutionary guards. The author is arrested in 4 or 5 towns and in each case, she out wits her captors and gets released. In the meantime, we get to know a wide number of local tribes, a lot of ancient history and a personal insight to places too dangerous for a European male to wander. If you want to visit Iran and/or Turkey, this isn't a bad way to keep the interest alive without risking your neck (literally)