Sayarer Julian - Pre Order Turkiye Cycling Through A Countrys First Century - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " A deeply thoughtful gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" Caroline EDEN By a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing " The best travelogues should make you question your preconceptions of a place and force you to engage with what the author is saying. T rkiye succeeds on both fronts" Cycle Magazine " 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 T rkiye 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 T rkiye 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 T rkiye and closer to home. " A persuasive corrective to western views of a place he loves" Guardian
Title: Turkiye Cycling Through A Countrys First Century
Author(s): Sayarer Julian
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Barcode: 9781529429985
Pages: 368 Pages, 1 X 16pp Plate Section
Publication Date: 8/19/2025
Category: Travel Writing