Meander: East to West,Indirectly,Along a Turkish River
The Meander is a river so famously winding that its name has long since come to signify digression,an approach author Jeremy Seal makes the most of while traveling the length of the river alone by canoe. A natural storyteller,Seal takes readers from the Meanders source in the uplands of central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea,with as many historical,cultural,and personal asides as there are bends in the river.In a rapidly industrializing Turkey,the river itself has been largely f