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	Click contents to enlarge	CORNUCOPIA Issue 33, Spring 2005 128 pages, price £10 (US$20) incl p&p ADD TO BASKET SUBSCRIBE Volume 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 Volume 2 special volume offer 7 8 9 10 11 12 Volume 3 special volume offer 13 14 15 16 17 18 Volume 4 special volume offer 19 20 21 22 23 24 Volume 5 special volume offer 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Special Istanbul Edition 32 Volume 6 33 34 35 36 37 HOME ORDER BY FAX BACK ISSUE MENU cornucopia.net is published by Cornucopia Magazine. All rights reserved 2005 Cover: A Lady Drinking Coffee, Pera Museum, Istanbul
	CORNUCOPIA 33: GREAT EXHIBITIONS I
		CONNOISSEUR Highlights of the Brussels exhibition Mothers, Goddesses and Sultans, which exploring 10,000 years of of the female form, range from the Ottoman lady drinking coffee (see cover, above) from Istanbul's new Pera Museum, and Carlo Bossoli's Palace Interior from the Eczacibasi Collection (left) to Aphrodite in a diaphanous shift, (below left), a vigorous Amazon (below right) - both 1st century BC - and the voluptuous 6th millennium goddess discovered by James Mellaart at Çatalhüyük in the early 1960s, centre. Plus the latest news on exhibitions and auction houses in Istanbul and around the world, including Isztanbul Modern (Fikret Moualla), the Sadberk Hanim Museum (portrait photography 1846-1950), the Pera Museum (the $3.5 million dollar Osman Hamdi Bey), and the V&A's touring show now on at Fort Worth, Texas) plus amazing Iznik in London at Sotheby's and Christie's.

	CORNUCOPIA 33: GREAT EXHIBITIONS II
		TURKS 600 - 1600, AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY Ina special 25-page report, Cornucopia picks the highlights of the most important exhibition ever to come out of Turkey. Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600 opened at the Royal Academy at the start of 2005 to great acclaim. The Ottoman exhibits, many of them never before seen outside Turkey, are a glorious marriage of refinement and splendour. But Turks is about more than the Ottomans. It celebrates the art of three great Turkic cultures: that of the Seljuks, who ruled Persia and most of Anatolia; that of Tamerlane, based in Samarkand, which stretched from India to the Mediterranean; and the Ottoman Empire itself. Central Asia has had a profound influence on Western culture that has been ignored for too long. Turks is set to change all that. Review by Joohn Carswell Exhihition photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg SEE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ARTICLE ONLINE	The catalogue Turks 600-1600, edited by David Roxburgh is available to Cornucopia subscribers at £65, including postage worldwide. Click on cover to readJohn Carswell's review of exhibition and catalogue, and to order the book online.
			Other articles on the 16th-century heyday of Ottoman court art: Cornucopia 23 Cornucopia 34

	CORNUCOPIA 33: TRAVELLERS' TALES - Eastern Anatolia
		TRIBE AND TRIBULATION The Kirghiz of Eastern Anatolia After years of wandering in western China, Afghanistan and Pakistan, a group of Kirghiz have finally made a lasting home in the highlands of eastern Anatolia. The historian Hasan Ali Karasar, who as a boy in Van witnessed their arrival recounts an extraordinary tale. Article by Ali Karasar Plus Antony Wynn on where the Kirghiz came from Photographs by Jonathan Henderson	On the subject of Central Asian Turks, we also recommend Cornucopia 31
	CORNUCOPIA 33: TRAVELLERS' TALES II - Central Asia
		SPEECHLESS IN SAMARKAND An awe-inspiring journey through Uzbekistan Words and photographs by Min Hogg	Other articles in Cornucopia by Min Hogg, founding editor of The World of Interiors: Georgia on my Mind Cornucopia 28 Journey to the Wild East: Min Hogg's Anatolian Diary Cornucopia 24
	CORNUCOPIA 33: TRAVELLERS; TALES III - The Taurus Mountains
		WALKING THE TAURUS Kate Clow, creator of Turkey's first official walking route, has done it again. Caroline Finkel joined her on the new St Paul Trail, which crosses the giant Taurus range in southern Turkey. Photographs by Kate Clow and Terry Richardson	ST PAUL TRAIL and THE LYCIAN WAY St Paul Trail, by Kate Clow and Terry Richardson is offered to Cornucopia subsribers at £12.99 including postage worldwide Order now The Lycian Way, by Kate Clow, is offered to Cornucopia subsribers at £11.99 including postage worldwide Order now Kate Clow articles and photographs appear regularly in Cornucopia: Cornucopia 17 Silence of the Lammergeiers (walking in Turkey's Lake district, 12pp). Text and photographs by Kate Clow Cornucopia 22 The Secret Garden of Kasnak (8pp), by Chris Gardner, photographs by Kate Clow Cornucopia 28 Peak Performance (Turkey's Kaçkar Mountains, 20pp) Caroline Finkel's new history of the Ottoman Empire, Osman's Dream (John Murray) is published in July 2005.
	CORNUCOPIA 33: COOKERY - ten beautiful böreks
		SIMPLY SENSATIONAL It can be the star at family feasts or the perfect fast food. Golden and crisp outside, meltingly delicate inside, the börek is a heavenly marriage of feather-light pastry and cheese, meat, vegetables - or just about any filling you care to think of. Berrin Torolsan serves up ten irresistible recipes. Photographs by Berrin Torolsan
	CORNUCOPIA 33: WINE GUIDE
		ON YOUR MARQUES Brave new wines from Turkey. Kevin Gould on the independent spirit of Turkish wine makers. Twelve wines were tasted: they ranged from Kavaklidere's narince from Tokat 1999 ("long as a summer's day, pretty as your sweetheart") to Cankara's Alaz 2003 ("plumber's mastic"). Pick of the bunch was Doluca's Karma (cabernet sauvignon and okuzgozu grapes) - "twin themes of tight, thin tannins and fat, luscious fruit make Karma an elegant, thoughtful, meditative wine, a bottle of which makes you feel pretty damn holy". Photograph by Berrin Torolsan
	CORNUCOPIA 33: BOOKS
		BOOKS REVIEWED IN CORNUCOPIA 33 Norman Stone: Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres The Maze, by Panos Karnezis David Barchard: The Crimean War, by Clive Ponting Andrew Mango: Salonica, City of Ghosts, by Mark Mazower Caroline Finkel: Balconies of Istanbul, by Oya Sengor and Sheree Barka Hugh Pope: Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea, by Tom Brosnahan For a complete list of books available from the Cornucopia book service, click here.
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