{"product_id":"following-miss-bell-travels-around-turkey-in-the-footsteps-of-gertrude-bell","title":"Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell","description":"In 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey. Over the next 25 years, she would travel the length and breadth of the country, crossing the Tigris on a raft of inflated goatskins and taking the earliest photographs of remote corners of the country.\n\nVeteran guidebook writer Pat Yale set out to retrace Bell's Turkish adventures as one British traveller following another. Her journey took her to the site on the Syrian border where she met Lawrence of Arabia, to forgotten monasteries with solitary occupants and to villages where trilingual inhabitants recalled a more multicultural past. Along the way, she rubbed shoulders with adherents of faiths that barely survive in modern Turkey, with refugees struggling to make new lives, and with myriad taxi drivers whose stories exemplify the Turkish dream.\n\nInterwoven with each other, the tales of these two women's travels evoke a Turkey of then and now that is so much more complex than its modern tourist image suggests.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1912716356\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1912716356.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Yale, Pat\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41655568990266,"sku":"DBV.1912716356.A","price":10.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1912716356-0.jpg?v=1789530969","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/following-miss-bell-travels-around-turkey-in-the-footsteps-of-gertrude-bell","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}