Meander

This is a wonderful book by a wonderful writer – Robert Macfarlane
Meander is both the tale of a quixotic journey down a river and a wonderfully affectionate, funny, intimate and knowledgeable portrait of Turkey – Barnaby Rogerson * Times Literary Supplement *
There are few better travel writers than Jeremy Seal writing today, and none better on Turkey – Geographical Magazine
Success and enjoyment in this book spring from the fact that Seal is equally at home in the past as the present… his great ability here is to convey something of the lives, the concerns and the nature of the people of the region – Anthony Sattin * Spectator *
Meander takes us to a forgotten river and a land whose history and culture, significant as they are for bridging East and West, old and new, are all but neglected. It’s wonderful stuff… a book that celebrates the dilemma in which Turkey finds itself, which records with sensitivity a story which is both epic and intensely personal… this is a fine observation of a landscape and its people and of a country whose efforts to define itself have been as circuitous as the river itself’ – Jon Berry * *
An excellent introduction to Turkish history for anyone planning a summer holiday – Sara Wheeler * Guardian *
A charming, enviable journey… Seal’s book delivers on its promise of an unpredictable journey through an unfamiliar place * Sunday Times *
It’s an elegant and fitting tribute to the most famous river you’ve never heard of. – Dan Linstead * Wanderlust *
Writer and river are happily matched … History is his travelling companion – Anthony Sattin * Spectator *
Enlightening * The Bookseller *

Jeremy Seal is a travel writer, teacher and broadcaster with a life-long fascination for Turkey. His first book, A Fez of the Heart, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is also the author of The Snakebite Survivors’ Club, The Wreck at Sharpnose Point, and Santa- A Life, which was Radio 4’s Book of the Week. He has written for the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Conde Nast Traveller, the Weekend Australian and the New York Times, among others. He lives in Bath.

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