- Paperback: 233 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st Touchstone Ed edition (1 Jun 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671779974
- ISBN-13: 978-0671779979
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 643,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mary Settle offers us an intimate portrait of a Turkey rarely seen-a land where the cutting of a tree is a crime, where goats are sacrificed to launch state-of-the-art ships, and where whole towns emerge at dusk to stroll in the streets. She finds ancient monasteries converted into discos, underground cities carved out of rock, and sleek jet-set yachts alongside camels piled high with copper pots. She follows in the footsteps of emperors and nomads, sultans and shepherds; explores the trails blazed by Alexander the Great, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan, and Ataturk. "Turkish Reflections" is a cross-country odyssey into history, legend, mystery, and myth.
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IT BEGAN IN the spring, seventeen years ago, on the Greek island of Kos, one of the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean, about six miles from the Turkish coast. Read the first page
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IT BEGAN IN the spring, seventeen years ago, on the Greek island of Kos, one of the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean, about six miles from the Turkish coast. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Great book. I was earlier very prejudiced about Turkey (thanks to my national Greek inheritance), but after visiting the country and reading Mary Lee Settle's book, I came to understand this complex country who most want to either judge or ignore. Most who judge, never see the reality, or even meet a single armenian, kurd or a turk. Ignorance is the greatest evil!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an interesting book about a dynamic country. Highly recommended... It tries to do justice to the etnic diversity and tolearance of a country where hundreds of ethnicities peacefully live today under the umbrella of Turkish citizenship. In contrast to the review below, all the ancient cultures of Anatolia and the Balkans are alive in Turkey -- most of whose population consists of Moslemized (but very secular) descendants of those ancient peoples. Isolated outburts of religious/ethnic strife under the Ottomans (during WW I) and later in 1955 (during a Cyprus crisis) do not detract from the tolerance and ethnic harmony of a country which is a veritable mosaic of peoples from the Caucasus to the Balkans, from Albanians to Kurds. Mary Lee Settle draws a good portrait of a fascinating country in which ancient Greece, modern Europe, Hittite culture etc are alive, side by side.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Mary Lee Settle introduced me to a vastly different Turkey than the one I was familiar with through history books, popular sentiment and news articles. As an American, my interest in the "outside world" is often surprising to those from other lands. Turkey never seemed warm, romantic or joyful... until I read and visualized "Turkish Reflections". Rarely has a literary work caused me to experience a place so richly. From the descriptions of Turkish warmth in Bodrum to mind-bending jaunts through 8,000 year old settlements, Settle paints a portrait of a land deliciously steeped in hospitality, tolerance and texture. Political realities notwithstanding, this book establishes Turkey as an extremely desirable place to sojourn.
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Delightful log of travels around Turkey, written with love
The nation of Turkey has held an important place in the literary career of Mary Lee Settle; she lived there from 1972 to 1974, and her 1978 novel "Blood Tie," with its Turkish... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Paul Haspel
Flatters Only To Deceive
Mary Lee Settle, what were you thinking? Having read other positive critiques of Turkish Reflections, it was with a sense of indignation that I came across a negative review on... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2005 by Gary Knowles
A useful introduction to Turkey
I enjoyed this book for its overall view of Turkey, which shows that, although Turkey is far from innocent when it comes to Armenians and Kurds (which she hardly mentions at all),... Read more
Published on 28 Jun 2001
Tolerant Turkey?? What about the Armenians and the Kurds?
This book is highly disappointing in its approach to contemporary Turkey. It is well-known and is well documented that the Turks committed a major genocide earlier this century... Read more
Published on 26 Aug 1999
interesting read
Settle writes compellingly, and she really captures Turkey in this memoir. One of the best travel books I've read.
Published on 6 Jun 1998
Fascinating mix of history, mythology, and people of Turkey.
In 1972 the author went to Turkey and stayed for three years because it was cheap, a good place for a writer of limited means. Read more
Published on 24 May 1998
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