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.
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
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.
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By Anthony Bryer
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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)
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