Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
10 best books like Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Anastasia M. Ashman): Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens, The Harmless People, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey, Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes, Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, The Big Red Train Ride
Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens
| Author | Sofka Zinovieff |
| ISBN | 1862077509 |
Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would, return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny, and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian. The whole family have...
| Author | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review
In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account...
Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
| Author | Stephen Kinzer |
| ISBN | 0374528667 |
If Turkey lived up to its potential, it could rule the world - but will it? A passionate report from the front lines
For centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of "the Turk," and many people still think of Turkey as repressive, wild, and dangerous. Crescent and Star is Stephen...
Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey
| Author | Jack Scott |
| ISBN | 1904881645 |
Jack and Liam, fed up with kiss-my-arse bosses and nose-to-nipple commutes, quit their jobs and move to a small town in Turkey. Join the culture-curious gay couple on their bumpy rite of passage in a Muslim country. Meet the oddballs, VOMITs, vetpats, emigreys, semigreys, debauched waiters and middle...
Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints
| Author | Joy Stocke |
| ISBN | 0983918805 |
When Joy Stocke and Angie Brenner meet on the balcony of a guesthouse in a small resort town on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, they think they have only a mutual friend and a summer dream in common. Soon, they discover a shared love of travel, history, culture, cuisine, and literature; and they begin...
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
| Author | Tim Mackintosh-Smith |
| ISBN | 0330491148 |
Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include and Islamic Butlin's...
The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
| Author | Christopher Kremmer |
| ISBN | 0060097329 |
Apart from oil, rugs are the Muslim world's best-known commodity. While rugs are found in most Western homes, the story of religious, political, and tribal strife behind their creation is virtually unknown. In "The Carpet Wars, award-winning journalist Christopher Kremmer chronicles his fascinating...
Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
| Author | Barbara Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1553652045 |
When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited the baths in Turkey in 1717 she was so tightly corseted that Turkish women were convinced her husband had locked her into some devious machine. Montagu's account of her journey helped bring the region into the Western world's consciousness, and by the 1800s, the...
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1580050700 |
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 1888173890 |
The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35 minutes. In 1977 Eric Newby set out with his wife, an official guide and a photographer...
| Author | Tim Flannery |
| ISBN | 0802136656 |
Flannery travels to the unexplored regions of New Guinea in search of species that science has yet to discover or classify. He finds many -- from a community of giant cave bats that were supposedly extinct to the elusive black-and-white tree-kangaroo -- and along the way has a wealth of unforgettable...
| Author | Marybeth Bond |
| ISBN | 1885211155 |
This is an indispensable handbook full of information that can save you time, trouble and maybe even your life. Women make up the largest segment of the traveling population and many of them are choosing to travel alone. When I was a student for a summer session in England I walked the streets of London...
| Author | Patrick French |
| ISBN | 1400034175 |
At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history,...
| Author | Patricia Storace |
| ISBN | 0679744789 |
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins Patricia Storace's astonishing memoir of her year in Greece. Mixing affection with detachment, rapture with clarity, this American poet perfectly evokes a country delicately balanced between East and West.
Whether...
Alternate cover edition for ISBN 1466338105 / 9781466338104
In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong...
Lost Cosmonaut: Observations of an Anti-Tourist
| Author | Daniel Kalder |
| ISBN | 0743289943 |
Daniel Kalder belongs to a unique group: the anti-tourists. Sworn to uphold the mysterious tenets of The Shymkent Declarations, the anti-tourist seeks out the dark, lost zones of our planet, eschewing comfort, embracing hunger and hallucinations, and always traveling at the wrong time of year....
Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place
| Author | Mary Lee Settle |
| ISBN | 0671779974 |
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...
A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
| Author | Jeremy Seal |
| ISBN | 0156003937 |
"Europe observes Turkey's growing pains through suspicious eyes, seeing a country that walks a geographic, ethnic, and cultural tightrope, balanced uneasily between two worlds; a bridge between East and West with a foot in both camps, but with her heart in neither."
Turkey is...
| Author | Lonely Planet |
| ISBN | 1741045568 |
Get subterranean in the cavernous underground cities of Cappadocia, laze on white-sand beaches, pamper yourself in a steamy hamam or enjoy the buzz of cosmopolitan Istanbul -- discover Turkey s treasures and pleasures with Lonely Planet. Whether you want to worship the sun, climb Mt Ararat or muse...
On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul
| Author | Jason Goodwin |
| ISBN | 0312420676 |
On Foot to the Golden Horn recounts Jason Goodwin’s breathtaking journey with two companions through Eastern Europe from the dikes and marshes of Poland’s Baltic coast across to the Golden Horn in Istanbul. Along the way, they sleep in haystacks, drink with Gypsies, and play with Ceaucescu’s...
The Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook [Over 150 Recipes]
"Not to be missed…a gem. This is real Old World cooking…devotees of Mediterranean cuisine would be remiss not to add this book to their collection."—Boston Globe
Contemporary Turkish cuisine ranges from favorites such as chickpea pilaf to richly stewed lamb on a bed of eggplant. It...
| Author | Jenny White |
| ISBN | 0393062058 |
The Ottoman Empire is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches that, within days, appear for sale in Europe. Among them is a reliquary, presumed lost for four hundred years and around which an elaborate and mysterious sect has grown.
In Istanbul, magistrate Kamil Pasha is...
Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography
| Author | M. Şükrü Hanioğlu |
| ISBN | 0691151091 |
When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself--would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides...
