One-man Conoe: Meandering a Turkish River with Jeremy Seal

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

As a contemporary travel writer and journalist, Jeremy Seal has been travelling and writing for over twenty years with a special enthusiasm for Turkey. His first publication on Turkey was appeared in 1995 with the title of A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat (1995), which is a deeply instructive piece of present-day history as well as an entertaining insight into the soul of contemporary Turkey. Later publications of Seal cover The Sneakebite Survivors’ Club: Travels among Serpents (1999), The Wreck at Sharpnose Point: A Victorian Mystery (2002), Santa: A Life (2005) and his recent travel book Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River (2012). This paper scrutinizes his last non-fiction Meander arguing that Seal nourishes his masterpiece both with the elements of travel literature and guidebooks of the touristic fashion. Therefore, he creates a unique form of literature encapsulating the new form of contemporary travel guidebooks. Foremost aim of this paper is to demonstrate Seal’s Meander as both in the tradition of travel literature and touristic guidebook.