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CORNUCOPIA
Issue 17, 1999, £10 (US$20.00)
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Volume 1
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Volume 2
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Volume 3
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Volume 4
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Volume 5
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25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Special Istanbul Edition32

Volume 6
33 34 35 36 37

HIGHLIGHTS OF CORNUCOPIA ISSUE 17: THE REPUBLIC ISSUE

THE
REPUBLIC

Celebrating Turkey's
75th Birthday

A vivid illustrated history of the Turkish republic from the 1920s to today

 

Articles by Norman Stone,
David Barchard etal

The republic in pictures with 40 pages of photographs by Ara Güler and John Brunton

 

It was the century of Turkey's birth, of unprecedented peace and hard-won prosperity. In just 75years, Turkey has come a long way. At the end ofthe First World War, her defeated and crumbling empire possessed few towns or industries and was surrounded by neighbours hungry for her lands.


TRAVEL:WALKING IN TURKEY'S LAKE DISTRICT
 

SILENCE OF
THE
LAMMERGEIERS

Thetowering peaks and rolling foothills of Turkey's LakeDistrict simplytake one's breath away.

Text by Kate Clow

Photographs by Kate Clow and Terry Richardson

Egirdir, at theheart of Anatolia's majestic Lake District andthe midpoint of atriangle of mountains, is great trekking country. In winterintrepidwalkers share the snowy silence of the Davras, GelincikandDedegül peaks with wheeling lammergeiers, or lamb-vultures. Insummerthese towering limestone massifs, home to migrant herds of goatsand sheep, area refuge from the heat of the coastal plain. For thetrekker, each peak has itsown appeal.


YALIS OF THE BOSPHORUS

THE GREAT YALI
OF ZEKI PASHA

By Patricia Daunt

Photographs:
Jean Marie delMoral

 

Built asa glittering prize, then closed through warand exile, this flamboyantsurvivor is one of the last of the great waterfrontmansions of theBosphorus.


TURKISHCOOKERY

THE FAMILY
BRASSICA

The Cabbage and the Cauliflower

Text and photographs by Berrin Torolsan

The cabbage and the cauliflower are the Old World's culinary warriors, arming high tables and low with essential vitamins and minerals. They also deserve a medal for sheer versatility. Berrin Torolsan introduces a deliciously fortifying feast.

 

Recipes include stuffed cabbage leaves, cabbage leaves stuffed with chestnuts, kapuska, cabbage pickle and red cabbage salad; and cauliflower fritters, cauliflower salad, and cauliflower and broccoli au gratin.


PROFILE

HEADHUNTING

By DerinTürkömer

The memoirs of Frederick Courtney Selous, naturalist,explorer and probably the greatest of all the African hunters of the nineteenth century, recall his hunting expeditions in Turkey.