A Fez of the Heart
Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
By: Jeremy Seal
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 1996
Language: Unknown
Format: BOOK
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9780330343626
About This Book
This is Jeremy Seal's quest, by means of a fez, for the heart of a country culturally and spiritually at odds with herself. The fez's opposing associations - both revered Eastern-Islamic headdress and banal tourist souvenir - exactly reflects Turkey's cultural faultline.