Jeremy Seal, Author . Harcourt $24 (328p) ISBN 978-0-15-100524-6
Seal's elegant writing, sharp eye for detail and passion for investigation don't entirely compensate for his somewhat mountain-out-of-a-molehill project. Seal (A Fez of the Heart) became interested in the Scottish ship Caledonia, wrecked on...
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Jeremy Seal, Author Mariner Books $20.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-600393-3
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
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Jeremy Seal, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-100535-2
Equal parts exotic adventure, naturalist lore, soul-baring confessional and offbeat history, this elegant travelogue focuses on serpents--in the wild, in diverse cultures and in myth, religion and the popular imagination. Determined to overcome his...
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Jeremy Seal. Bloomsbury, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59691-652-4
“I had never been up a minaret… the question was whether it was wise that I should begin with a derelict one.” Seal (A Fez of the Heart), who has long rambled the highways and byways of Anatolia, ponders this and a thousand other timeless queries...
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