Research Catalog

Title

Turn right at Istanbul : a walk on the Gallipoli Peninsula / Tony Wright.

Author

Wright, Tony

Publication

Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, ©2003.

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Details

Description

250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 20 cm

Summary

• A personal account of the author's visit to Turkey, offering practical advice for the thousands of Australians who dream of making the nostalgic journey to Turkey and Gallipoli, coupled with a short history of the area and its role in World War I.
• "Tony Wright stuffs a copy of his great-uncle George's Gallopoli diary into his backpack and sets out from Sydney to discover how and why thousands of young Australians and New Zealanders make the trek to the Gallipoli Peninsula every year."--Back cover.

Subject

• Backpacking > Turkey > Gallipoli Peninsula > Anecdotes
• Travelers' writings
• Randonnée sac au dos > Turquie > Gallipoli, Péninsule de > Anecdotes
• Écrits de voyageurs
• travel literature
• Backpacking
• Travel
• Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) > Description and travel
• Gallipoli, Péninsule de (Turquie) > Descriptions et voyages
• Turkey > Gallipoli Peninsula

Genre/Form

• Travel writing
• Anecdotes
• Récits de voyages.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Leaving -- Istanbul -- Eyup -- A small voyage of the Bosphorus -- Cappadocia: The original Diggers -- Tom joins the trail -- To the Dardanelles -- Anzac House -- A boat to Anzac -- The Boomerang Bar -- A walk on old Anzac -- Lone Pine and the baptism at the Cove -- Anzac Eve -- Dawn at Anzac -- George's tree -- Postscript [one year later] -- Addendum: Tips for travellers.

ISBN

• 1865088307
• 9781865088303

OCLC

• 53284528
• SCSB-12886372

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library