Meander

This is a wonderful book by a wonderful writer

Robert Macfarlane

It’s an elegant and fitting tribute to the most famous river you’ve never heard of.

Dan Linstead, Wanderlust

An excellent introduction to Turkish history for anyone planning a summer holiday

Sara Wheeler, Guardian

Writer and river are happily matched … History is his travelling companion

Anthony Sattin, Spectator

Enlightening

The Bookseller

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, www.caughtbytheriver.net

A charming, enviable journey… Seal’s book delivers on its promise of an unpredictable journey through an unfamiliar place

Sunday Times

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

Seal is the best of companions; readers will enjoy every twist

Independent Radar

[Seal] travels from the river’s source in the distant hills to the point where it finally drains into the Aegean, every bend revealing an entirely new perspective

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