Anatolian Diatribe - Dark Thoughts on Modernity While Cycling Across Turkey, or What I Did When Iran Rejected My Visa Application (Paperback)

Forget what you think you know about the Middle East. In this definitive account of a solo cross country bicycle journey through the high steppe of central Turkey, Mark Calamuje delves into the only way to fundamentally understand another culture: alone and traveling the backroads far off the tourist paths. Ignoring the advice of those only familiar with Islamic society through fear driven media and fueled by a never ending war across the border in Iraq, Mark set out to explore the remote Anatolian landscape. Sleeping roadside in wheat fields and with no previous grasp of the Turkish language, his account is a sarcastically entertaining and caustic reflection on the hospitality of strangers in a foreign land. ..".Includes beautiful description of the locale, and some honest reflection on the author's experience." - Foreword Reviews Also available in a Kindle edition. Release date December 2010.