Meander: East to West along a Turkish River

The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a one-man canoe. At every twist and turn of his journey, from the Meander's source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean Sea, Seal illuminates his account with a wealth of cultural, historical and personal asides. It is a journey that takes him from Turkey's steppe interior - the stamping ground of such illustrious adventurers as Xerxes, Alexander the Great and the Crusader Kings - to the great port city of Miletus, home of the earliest Western philosophers. Along the way Seal unpicks the history of this remarkable region, but he also encounters a rich assortment of contemporary characters who reveal a rural Turkey on the cusp of change. Above all, this is the story of a river that first brought the cultures of East and West into contact - and conflict - with one another, its banks littered with the spoil of empires, the marks of war, and the detritus of recent industrialisation. At once epic, intimate and insightful, Meander is a brilliant evocation of a land between two worlds.

Sports & Outdoors

Seal, Jeremy

Water Sports

Vintage

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chiefly the town's parson, Robert Hawker, for the Caledonia's demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for "wrecking"-luring ships ashore to loot the cargo-it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow? Having meticulously researched maritime logs, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative reconstruction into this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind-the sort that really did happen.

Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage

History

Europe

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels Among Serpents

A world traveler, attempting to overcome his deadly fear of snakes, journeys to Australia, India, Africa, and America in search of the world's deadliest serpents and the people who live among them, finding a wealth of spellbinding information and experience along the way.

The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels among Serpents

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Harcourt,Inc.

A fez of the heart: Travels around Turkey in search of a hat

Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents’ attic, Jeremy Seal set off in 1993 to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintessentially Turkish headgear became the key to understanding a country beset by contradictions. “A modern travel classic” (Herald Express).

A Fez of the Heart: Travels around Turkey in Search of a Hat

Travel

Asia

Harper Paperbacks

Snakes are Jeremy Seal's fascination, and his greatest fear. In an attempt to overcome his phobia, he decides to journey into America, Australia, Africa and India in search of the most notorious and deadly snakes, and to meet the people who live among them. His travels take him to Kenya's snake man, whose entire life seems like a preparation for a bite from the terrible black mamba, and to witch doctors, who use snakes as instruments of vengeance. He recalls the stories of Australian convicts condemned to prison in the land of the world's deadliest snake, and the story of a Southern preacher who tries to murder his wife with his church's rattlesnakes. Mixed in with all these bizarre tales are fascinating scientific facts, snake lore and ancient legends. An erudite but highly entertaining travel narrative, The Snakebite Survivors' Club taps into our general fear of snakes to tell a funny and somewhat gruesome account of the world of snakes and the people they repel, mesmerize, and sometimes kill.

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the town of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, the author encounters a wooden Scottish figurehead that once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842. Through further investigation, Seal begins to suspect the townspeople, and chiefly the town's parson, Robert Hawker, for the Caledonia's demise on the jagged shores below. Though no one has ever been brought to court for "wrecking"--luring ships ashore to loot the cargo--it's a commonly held belief that this sort of cruelty did take place. But, is that what happened in Morwenstow? Having meticulously researched maritime logs, broadsides of the day, and other first-hand documents, Seal weaves history, travelogue, and imaginative reconstruction in this marvelous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kind--the sort that really did happen.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Picador

'It was January 1993 when a kindly but disbelieving Turk in an ill-fitting suit and a homburg approached me as our flight was called at Heathrow Airport . . . '

A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat

Trans-Atlantic Pubns

A mix of travel, history and modern fable, with the author travelling to the USA, Africa, Australia and India to meet people living amongst the world's deadliest snakes - and attempting to overcome his personal fear in the process. He weaves a tapestry of snake tales as he confronts his phobia.

Snakebite Survivors Club

PAN BOOKS LTD (ENGLAND)

While walking through a cliff-top graveyard in the village of Morwenstow on the coast of Cornwall, Jeremy Seal stumbled across a wooden figurehead which once adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the coast below in 1842. Through further investigation, he began to suspect the locals, and in particular the parson, Robert Hawker, of luring the ship to her destruction on Cornwalls jagged shore. Wrecking is known to have been widespread along several stretches of Englands coast. But is that what happened in Morwenstow?Seal weaves history, travelogue and vivid imaginative reconstruction into a marvellous piece of detective work, bringing us a mystery of the best kindthe sort that really happened.

The Wreck at Sharpnose Point

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Meander: East to West along a Turkish River

Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage

The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels among Serpents

A Fez of the Heart: Travels around Turkey in Search of a Hat

The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels Among Serpents

Treachery at Sharpnose Point: Unraveling the Mystery of the Caledonia's Final Voyage

A fez of the heart: Travels around Turkey in search of a hat

A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat

Snakebite Survivors Club

The Wreck at Sharpnose Point