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A Fez of the Heart by Jeremy Seal: Used
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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1996-03-28
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780156003933
- Book Title
- Fez of the Heart : Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Design, Travel, Social Science
- Topic
- Fashion & Accessories, Essays & Travelogues, Customs & Traditions, Middle East / General, Middle East / Turkey
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 11.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents' attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintessentially Turkish headgear became the key to understanding a country beset by contradictions. "A modern travel classic" (Herald Express).
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156003937
ISBN-13
9780156003933
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46029
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fez of the Heart : Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Fashion & Accessories, Essays & Travelogues, Customs & Traditions, Middle East / General, Middle East / Turkey
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Design, Travel, Social Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
11.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Dr429.4.S42 1996
Reviews
What is more Turkish than the fez? Almost anything, as it turns out. Just two years after Turkey was officially proclaimed a republic in 1923, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk outlawed the fez. For Ataturk, the maroon felt headgear foisted on Turkey's turbaned Ottoman precursors by a similarly reform-minded ruler, Mahmud II, just 100 years earlier, symbolized Turkey's backwardness'unlike the European hats Ataturk himself favored. It's not taking anything away from the book to say that first-time author Seal, after traipsing through Ankara, Istanbul, Cappadocia and many much more obscure Turkish towns (as well as the Moroccan city of Fez), doesn't discover the origins of the fez. But aided by fluent Turkish (it fails him once when he believes a host has invited him to hunt Kurds, only to discover that the game is kurts, or wolves) and wry sensibility, he does offer both an engaging, often very funny travelogue and real insights into Turkey's troubled balancing act between modernity and tradition, between Europe and Islam. For those who were surprised by the plurality gained by Turkey's pro-Islamic Refah (or Welfare) Party in the most recent elections, Seal's book shows that we could all learn a lot from a hat., Upon the orders of Kemal Ataturk, the fez replaced the turban as Turkey's national headdress. Outlawed completely in 1925, the turban is viewed as a symbol of Turkish backwardness. While living and teaching in Turkey for several years, Jeremy Seals developed an obsession for the fez, a hat he believes has come to symbolize the soul of the country. Through interviews with villagers and historical essays, Seals chronicles his journey through Turkey, to areas both metropolitan and remote, to find the heart of the country as embodied by its national head gear.
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
95-047394
Dewey Decimal
915.6/1/0439
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
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