Discovery Guide to Eastern Turkey
Diana Darke
Haag
As experienced travellers to Turkey know, the country is too vast and varied to be encapsulated within one guide. Eastern Turkey in particular is rarely more than an appendix in other books. In this Discovery Guide it now receives the detailed description it deserves.
The Anatolian plateau has a power in its scale and ruggedness that is almost demonic, and the stillness that settles on the thin piercing blueness of Lake Van seems surreal. Yet from the summit of Mount Ararat, where the Bible has Noah’s Ark coming to rest after the Flood, the view is! of nothing less than ‘the whole cradle of the human race’. Eastern Turkey and the forested shores of the Black Sea are a world apart from the familiar Greek and Roman influences along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. It is an exciting adventure for a new generation of travellers.
Author also of the Discovery Guide to Aegean and Mediterranean Turkey, Diana Darke has travelled extensively in Turkey and the Near East, first with the Foreign Office, now as a consultant. She provides much practical information together with suggested itineraries based on her first-hand experience of the country, the people and their language, ensuring that travellers can discover Eastern Turkey with confidence.
The cover photograph shows one of the colossal heads at Nemrut Dag
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