Turkish Odyssey: A Traveler's Guide to Turkey and Turkish Culture

by Serif Yenen

Book Overview

As travel guide, reference, or leisurely read, Turkish Odyssey is the most comprehensive cultural guide to travel in Turkey. It's also the first travel guide to Turkey written by a Turk, so it gives... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9759463806
• ISBN13: 9789759463809
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Meander-Serif Yenen
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Best and most beautiful guide to Turkey

Turkish Odyssey is a beautifully and extensively illustrated guide to Turkey with visuals on almost every page. Its pictures, maps, graphs and computer graphic reproductions present a visual treasure of what you will discover in Turkey. The graphic reproductions are especially useful when visiting Anatolia's numerous archaeological sites. The writing is clear, crisp, and concise. The cultural format is quite broad discussing everything from calligraphy to camel-wrestling. The author is a knowledgeable professional guide who knows first-hand whereof he writes-many of the photos are the author's. This is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in Turkey.

MALKOC SUALP

MR SPYROS IS OBVIOUSLY STILL ENGULFED IN THE CYPRIOT ISSUE, THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT TURKEY FOR THE TRAVELLER, NOT A HISTORY BOOK, BESIDES TURKEYS HISTORY HOWEVER DISSAPOINTING THIS MAY BE FOR MR SPYROS IS FAR MORE COLOURFUL AND VAIRED THAN JUST THE HELLENIC INFLUENCE, IT HAS ROMAN, MACEDONIAN, PERSIAN, OTTOMAN, MONGUL AND MANY MORE INFLUENCES

A Wonderful Book on Turkish Culture, Not a Travel Guide

This book is a wonderful book to use to find out about Turkish culture. It has a overview of the history, geography, culture, foods, religion and sites of this amazing country. It is not a travel guide. Do not buy this if you are looking for a book to tell you where to spend the night in Istanbul. Do buy this book to find out those things you did not ask your guide in Turkey. I personally recomend it as a good way to begin finding out about Turkish culture, perfect to read and then discuss with your Turkish frineds before your trip to Turkey.

An entertaining insight into Turkish culture.

This is the book you will want to read after you've been to Turkey (which is not to say you shoudln't read it before going). It is not the typical "travel guide" with hotel and restaurant listings nor is it the typical "insight guide" with ponderous prose and more history than any but a history professor could love. If you want a book to carry as a reference, buy something else. For one thing, this book is too beautiful to ruin carting it about in your suitcase. There are over 300 excellent photos depicting the country and the people. The book is entertaining, easy to read, and beautiful to look at. Serif Yenen answers the odd questions every traveler has (but is usually afraid to ask his travel guide), and he is unabashedly proud of his Anatolia. (The author is a well known travel guide in Turkey and you may be interested to know that he maintains an informative web site for his travel company.) I would recommend this book to someone who has been to Turkey or is planning a visit and wants to have a greater connection to the people, traditions, culture and history.

Turkish Odyssey is my choice of reference books about Turkey

Have visited Turkey a number of times, and have quite a large collection of Books about Turkey. My favorite reference by far is the Turkish Odyssey