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Turkey - The Passenger (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 900
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Turkey - The Passenger (Paperback)
Series: The Passenger
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List price R599
Loot Price R490
Discovery Miles 4 900
You Save R109 (18%)
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The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and
reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers
and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and
investigative journalism; original photography and illustrations;
charts, and unusual facts and observations, each volume offers a
unique insight into a different culture, and how history has shaped
the place into what it is today. Brimming with intricate research
and enduring wonder, The Passenger is a love-letter to global
travel. IN THIS VOLUME, Elif Batuman, Burhan Soenmez, Elif Shafak
among other Turkish writers, many of them in self-imposed exile,
explore a fascinating yet maddening country. The birth of the "New
Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called
his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of "illiberal
democracies" through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom,
and the independence of the judicial system. Turkey was a complex
country long before the rise of its new sultan: born out of the
ashes of a vast multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, Turkey has
grappled through its relatively short history with the definition
of its own identity. Poised between competing ideologies,
secularism and piousness, a militaristic nationalism and
exceptional openness to foreigners, Turkey defies easy labels and
categories. Through the voices of some of its best writers and
journalists, The Passenger analyses how it got to where it is today
and finds the bright spots of hope that allow its always
resourceful, often frustrated population to continue living, and
thriving.
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