Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses, and Saints PDF
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Published by Wild River Books P.O. Box 53 Stockton, New Jersey 08559 www.wildriverreview.com Copyright ©2012 Angie Brenner & Joy E. Stocke All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the copyright holder. Distributed by Emerald Book Company For ordering information or special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Emerald Book Company at PO Box 91869, Austin, TX 78709, 512.891.6100. Design and composition by Greenleaf Book Group LLC Cover design by Tim Ogline Watercolors by Angie Brenner LCCN: 2011938491 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9839188-1-3 Ebook Edition For Jackson. —AB For my daughter, Sarah “Sadie” Gretchen Young. —JES CONTENTS AUTHORS’ NOTE TURKISH PRONUNCIATION PROLOGUE INTRODUCTION One LYCIAN DAYS Two LYCIAN NIGHTS Three BEFORE AND AFTER Four THE STEAMY SIDE OF ISTANBUL Five BLINIS IN BEYOǦLU Six RUMI AND COKE Seven ALMOST A HOUSE IN ORTAHISAR Eight OUR GRAND BASIC BLACK SEA ADVENTURE Nine THE QUEEN OF ANATOLIA Ten THE EAGLE OF ARARAT Eleven ABRAHAM AND THE MERMAID Twelve THE EDUCATION OF MUSTAFA Thirteen THE NYMPH WHO RAN AWAY Fourteen RETURN TO THE LYCIAN SEA EPILOGUE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE AUTHORS AUTHORS’ NOTE Bir varmş bir yokmuş—maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t. —Turkish proverb For nearly twenty years, Turkey has been a part of our lives. For more than ten, we’ve traveled together, sharing adventures and misadventures. We never found the dangerous country so many Westerners fear. Instead, we discovered a beautiful, vibrant, diverse culture as complicated as our own. We’ve chosen to use the word Anatolia, Land of Many Mothers, in our title, derived from Anat, the great mother goddess. Within Anatolia’s borders we’ve visited places we read about in history books, the Bible, and in myth: Mesopotamia, the Pontus, Cappadocia, and the Fertile Crescent. But it was through author Mary Lee Settle’s writings that we first came across the phrase Bir varmış bir yokmuş—maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t. Throughout our journeys, the phrase has stayed in our minds. Reality is framed within our memories. Maybe it happened, but then again …
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