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Türkiye - Cycling Through a Country’s First Century (Hardcover)
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Türkiye - Cycling Through a Country’s First Century (Hardcover)
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By a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing
"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . We need writers
who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with fire. Sayarer
is a marvellous example" HORATIO CLARE On the eve of its centenary
year and elections that will shape the coming generations, Julian
Emre Sayarer sets out to cycle across Türkiye, from the Aegean
coast to the Armenian border. Meeting Turkish farmers and workers,
Syrian refugees and Russians avoiding conscription, the journey
brings to life a living, breathing, cultural tapestry of the place
where Asia, Africa and Europe converge. The result is a love letter
to a country and its neighbours - one that offers a clear-eyed view
of Türkiye and its place in a changing world. Yet the route is
also marked by tragedy, as Sayarer cycles along a major fault line
just months before one of the most devastating earthquakes in the
region's modern history. Always engaged with the big historical and
political questions that inform so much of his writing, Sayarer
uses his bicycle and the roadside encounters it allows to bring
everything back to the human level. At the end of his journey we
are left with a deeper understanding of the country, as well as the
essential and universal nature of political power, both in Türkiye
and closer to home.
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