The caravan moves on
by Orga, İrfan
"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."--J…
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- Full title :The caravan moves on / Irfan Orga.
Summary
"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."--Jacket.
This book made Irfan Orga something of a celebrity when it was first published in the 1950s. It is about living with a nomadic people who have no sense of belonging to a nation or the world beyond their tribe. Orga journeys to the center of Turkey to stay with the Yuruk nomads in the High Taurus Mountains. There 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 opens 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.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):ELAND
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
Notes
Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1958.
The Physical Object
- Description:173 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0907871976, 9780907871972
- oclc:ocm50101496
- LC Classification:DS49.3
- Dewey Decimal:915.610403
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