Open up a world of Turkish inspiration with a Cornucopia digital subscription

Buy or gift a stand-alone digital subscription and get unlimited access to dozens of back issues for just £18.99 / $18.99 a year.

Please register at www.exacteditions.com/digital/cornucopia with your subscriber account number or contact subscriptions@cornucopia.net

Buy a digital subscription Go to the Digital Edition

Bolkar

Travels with a Donkey in the Taurus Mountains

By Dux Schneider (1924–1978)
Published by Xlibris
£14.5

Cornucopia special offer

£11.50 / $15.02 / €13.74
($/€ approx)



‘A valuable cultural record that’s as insightful as it is entertaining.’
Tom Brosnahan
Book Description

Dux Schneider was drawn to mountains, and he recognised that in a rapidly modernising country the traditional life of mountain peoples would undergo inevitable and irreversible change. His trek through the Bolkar range was a dream come true, the culmination of his Turkish explorations. He got there before television and mobile phones, when the Yuruk nomads and Tahtacis were still a people apart. This book is a rare picture of that time, place and people, a valuable cultural record that’s as insightful as it is entertaining - Tom Brosnahan

Featured in Cornucopia 37

Nomad’s Land

By Dux Schneider (1924–1978)


Extract


It had been a good three hour’s walk from the village of Maden, where the side road into the mountains ended. The donkey I had bought the previous day had been walking politely at my pace until we rounded the last bend cut through the rock, high above a stream. There he stopped, even though I had been following his previous owner’s advice and talking to him. But now talking, commanding, pleading, all to no avail. He looked back. I pulled forward. He came… two or three steps to a nice bunch of thistles, which he plucked and munched. At last he went on, but more hesitatingly and reached to sniff at any dried dung he found along the way.

Near where the path joined a small stream, a gruop of camels were grazing. The higher valley was opening out to a roughly circular plain about a mile across. As I passed a small hillock, a sheepdog raced down with leaps and barks from near a black tent. The donkey laid back its ears and faced this welcome, turning as the dog circled us. A boy came running over and threw a few stones at the dog. Without more than a return of greeting, the boy beckoned and strode around the hill; he led us towards the farthest of four tents that came into view. Here he unloaded the bags, removed the saddle and went away with the donkey.

Dux Schneider was born in the USA in 1924 and grew up in Belgium and England. After working in publishing, he turned to writing. Inspired by Victorian travel books, he and his wife Monica went to eastern Turkey and were among the first climbers in Hakkari Province.

Related Books
Cornucopia Bookshop

Books

Back Issues

Music

Subscriptions

Cornucopia Digital Subscription

The Digital Edition

Cornucopia works in partnership with the digital publishing platform Exact Editions to offer individual and institutional subscribers unlimited access to a searchable archive of fascinating back issues and every newly published issue. The digital edition of Cornucopia is available cross-platform on web, iOS and Android and offers a comprehensive search function, allowing the title’s cultural content to be delved into at the touch of a button.

Digital Subscription: £18.99 / $18.99 (1 year)

Subscribe now