Turkey [antikvár]

The book in your hands was a long time incomingnearly two decades, in fact. Longbefore publisher Hans Hoefer made his wayto Asia to set up what is today Apa Publica-tions, the young German was buying Mer-cedes sedans cheapin Stuttgart anddriving themthrough Turkey tosell in Iran and theMiddle East. Tur-key left an indelibleimpression on himat the time andwhetted his appetitefor further travels. Some 17 years and 70 In-sight Guides later, the time came at last forHoefer to return to his "traveling roots" inTurkey.Hoefer has always believed in a new-concept type of guide bookone that wouldprovide a more insightful potrayal of a coun-try than the conventional travel book did. Hetherefore specifically designs the InsightGuide series for the "second generation"traveler. A "first generation" traveler, asHoefer sees it, is one who requires a book toget him from the airport to hotel to restaurantto tourist attraction and then back homeagain. A "second generation" traveler, on theother hand, is one who has transcended thoseneeds with the assistance of modern travelagencies and personal travel experience.What he needs is a guide to explain the whyof visiting a place instead of the how ofgetting there.The process of finding the right projecteditor for this title was not an easy feat. It wasonly after several frustrating encounters thatthe effort paid off and writer-journalist Tho-mas Goltz was selected for the task. Goltz,born in Tokyo but raised in North Dakota,started his travels more than a decade ago inBerlin, from where he proceeded to hitch-hike, through Africa as a one-manShakespeare show, passing through Turkeyon the way. Something grabbed him, and in1982, now fluent in both Turkish and Arabicand with an MA in Middle Eastern studiesfrom New York University, he returned totake up life as a journalist, writing for suchoutfits as the Associated Press, the UnitedPress International, McGraw Hill, TorontoStar, Playboy and the Reader s Digest, andtraveling over most of the country and cov-ering everythingfrom Grease Wres-tling to the annualsearch for Noah'sArk on MountArarat. While outin Van on an as-signment, Goltzfirst heard about thepossibility of doingan Insight Guide to Turkey, andafter ayear's waitgot the nod to start organizingthe Turkey team.D.A. (Tony) Gillotte, world wandererand old friend of Goltz since their studentdays at the Goodman School of Drama to-gether in the early 1970's, is the guide to the"Northern Aegean" and "Izmir". In addition,it was Gillotte who provided the essentialhelp in photo selection and sub-editing. Gil-lotte, who worked at the Public Theater inNew York and who was responsible for thatorganization's aid project for Cambodianrefugees in Thailand, allowed his imagina-tion to flow while walking the stages of theancient theaters of the Aegean area, and isdesperate to come back for more.One of the first people he contacted wasDavid Barchard, the commentator on Tur-key for the BBC, who agreed to write notonly the "Cradle Of Mankind" and "Byzan-tium", but also the "Central Anatolia" chap-ter with its accompanying feature on "Cap-padocia". Barchard, a graduate in historyfrom Oxford, is a keen student of late Romanhistory as well as an acknowledged experton 20th-century Turkish history, and his re-cent book, Turkey and the West is a basicreference for Turkey's complex relationshipwith the EEC. By his own admonition,Barchard drank his first raki in Ankara at theage of 16 on a school trip to Turkey, and hasbeen intimately identified with the countryever since.Turkish history, ranging from the emer-HoeferHoeferGoltzGillotte