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Cover story
Sweet Waters:Lake Egirdir
By Jeremy James Photographs by Manuel Citak The train cuts the gorge and there it is: a wide band of shivering silver, the sleeve of the morning sun lying across the lake of Egirdir. Jeremy James discovers in the mountains above Antalya in southwest Turkey, a town lapped by the passage of history, and the waters of one of Turkey's most beautiful lakes. About the author Also by Jeremy James in this issue:
Pastures New
In 1986, armed with a pair of jodhpurs, a chest of horse medicine and a saddle, Jeremy James bought an Anatolian stallion and spent the next nine months riding the two thousand miles home from a mountain village in western Turkey to Wales. The book of the journey, Saddletramp: From Ottoman Hills to Offa's Dyke, was published by Pelham Books (now out of print).
Cornucopia invited James to retrace his journey. | | 
'Sweeping round the loop of rail as you come in by train, Egirdir looks like a new town, with new buildings all facing out over the huge blue lake. But it is a new place and an old place. Egirdir has a watery calm. Everything happens in a dream-like way, without hurry or demand. And whatever brings you to town, the first thing you notice is the softness of the air and the quiet, balmy effect of the lake...'
| | Also on the Turkey's Lake district:
Cornucopia 11: Lake Shore Drive: Lake Beysehir, by John Ashe, The Anatolia Travel Issue Cornucopia 17: Silence of the Lammergeiers: Walking in the mountains above Egirdir by Kate Clow, Cornucopia 22: The Secret Gardens of Kasnak, by Kate Clow |
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Gardens Garden in the Levant: Bornova
By Rosemary Baldwin Photographs by Bunyat Dinc The European merchants of nineteenth-century Izmir built their gardens in Bornova, below the hills where they loved to shoot and fish. Rosemary Baldwin revisits the home of the Girauds and discovers a haunting reminder of a genteel era. | | 
| | Related articles: The Whittalls in Winter, by Yolande Whittall, Cornucopia 19 Also see The Turkish Gardens Issue: Cornucopia 13 |
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The Byzantine Heritage The Miracle of Santa Sophia
With a fold-out panorama of the city after drawings by Gaspare Fossati By Anthony Bryer One thousand tons of loose glass cling suspended in the world's largest unsupported brick dome, an architectonic miracle and the last great monument of Roman architecture. Article excerpts: | | 
| | Related articles: Drama in the Round, the frescoes and mosaics of the Kariye Camii, by Robert Ousterhout
Cornucopia 27 Related books
Hagia Sophia
Photographed by Tahsin Aydogmus
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Profile Magnum Opus:Ara Guler
By Geordie Greig From the glamour of Hollywood to the gritty humanity of post-war Turkey. Ara Guler, Istanbul's most celebrated photographer, Time Life correspondent and Magnum Associate, has captured the spirit of the twentieth century. In a rare moment of respite between international assignments he talks to Geordie Greig (at the time of publication London's Sunday Times New York correspondent, subsequently editor of Tatler Magazine) | | 
| | Related Articles: Sinan: Architect of a Forgotten Renaissance, by Brian Sewell, with photographs by Ara Guler from Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent, by John Freely and Augusto Romano Burelli
Cornucopia 3 |
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Architecture On the road toTarsus
By Brian Sewell
Photographs by David George
Architectural ideas flowed freely in medieval Anatolia. Brian Sewell discovers the Islamic past in the Cappadocian city of Nigde | | 
| | Also by Brian Sewell: The Road to Godhead: in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, by Brian Sewell Cornucopia 2 Sinan: Architect of a Forgotten Renaissance, by Brian Sewell, with photographs by Ara Guler from Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent, by John Freely and Augusto Romano Burelli
Cornucopia 3 Over the Hills and Far Away: Travels in northeast Anatolia
Cornucopia 12 |
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Art The Painted Word: Sir David Wilkie in Turkey
By David Blayney Brown Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841, was one of the first artists to show the human face of an eastern people. David Blayney Brown, of the Tate Gallery, marks his hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Wilkie's death with a tribute to this forgotten Scottish Romantic | | 
| | Also recommended: Thomas Hope in
Cornucopia 5 Ingres and Lady Mary Wortley Montague in Cornucopia 10 |
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Travel & food Food for thought
Text and photographs by Christopher Ryan Christopher Ryan samples hand-churned butter, thick home-made yoghurt, and other Anatolian fare on the plains of Konya. | | 
| | Related articles: East with the Night: travels on the Konya Plain, by Rory Knight Bruce,
Cornucopia 7 Travel Notes: The new Konya Hilton opened 2002.
See Cornucopia's Hotel Directory |
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Cookery The Golden Apple of theHesperides
Text and photographs by Berrin Torolsan Berrin Torolsan tells the secret tale of the quince. For a complete list of Berrin Torolsan's cookery stories in Cornucopia, see our cookery index.
Selected recipes are also available online: menus. | | 
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Book reviews: David Barchard's guide to the guides, including
Tom Brosnahan's Turkey: A Travel Survival Kit;
The Istanbul Blue Guide; Strolling Through Istanbul, by John Freely; Istanbul: the Istanbul City Guide; Brian and Eileen Anderson's Landscapes of Turkey around Antalya;
Lyn Rodley's Cave Monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia
Spero Kostof's The Caves of God;
Betsy Harrell's Mini Tours;
Ekrem Akurgal's Ancient Ruins of Turkey;
George Bean's Aegean Turkey and Turkey's Southern Shore;
Rod Heikell's Turkish Waters Pilot | | Also in this issue: Boating on the Bosphours Cappadocian Wines | | |
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