 The Caravan Moves On
Irfan Orga
Three weeks among Turkish nomads Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0 907871 97 6
Area of interest: Turkey
Genre: Islamic Interest, Travel Date of first publication: 1958
Eland publication date: January 1, 2002
Price: £12.99
Irfan Orga, author of Portrait of a Turkish Family, journeys to the centre of Turkey to stay with the Yuruk nomads in the High Taurus mountains. He learns their lore, listens to their legends, and lives to feel that heroes dead a thousand years and abducted princesses turned mad by grief are still palpably alive.
Orga enters a world untouched by politics or the march of events. He reconnects us with a once ubiquitous emotional landscape - a visceral place underpinned by elemental values.
biography of Irfan Orga
extract from The Caravan Moves On
"Reads as freshly as if it were written yesterday"
Condé Nast Traveller
"Orga's account is bitter-sweet…He described the beauty of the mountains in a poetic prose… it will come as a tale not of a distant country but of a distant past – of Turkey before the coasts were covered with concrete and before depopulated mountains were given over to organized parties of walkers."
Andrew Mango, Times Literary Supplement
"an intriguing study of the lores and lives of people in central Turkey in the fifties"
Evening Standard
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