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Books for a Turkish-themed library Reviews of Best Books about Turkish (and Turkey) Related Pages: Other book reviews Book buying information Is there anything more riveting than a scandalous tell-all book review...? Turkey: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit by Tom Brosnahan and Pat Yale for Lonely Planet Publications Our reviewer (who hails from the e. e. cummings school of writing) gives it a 9.9 and says that T:LP...is the best travel guide i have found (so far) for the country. the 4th edition has been my companion on many an excursion all across the country and has been quite useful in getting from point 'a' to point 'b' and finding someplace to sleep and eat at both points. (one of the neat features of the lonely planet guides is a listing of english language bookstores wherever they appear and you happen to be... I was in Barcelona at Christmas and hauled back some used books from "Come In", a great bookstore that has both new and used books.) BTW, there is a nice condensed Lonely Planet for Western Europe and another one for Mediterranean Europe - (that one includes Turkey). Drawback - These books are FAT and weigh a ton. On my desk amid several hundred other things is a paperback copy of the Random House Dictionary, next to it is the paperback Lonely Planet for Western Europe... guess which one is fatter. if you picked the dictionary you would be wrong... the problem with a FAT book is that it doesn't fit into your pocket. Well, it does if you have large pockets... but people look at you really funny... this is an exceptionally disgusting drawback when you need the bloody thing because it lists the metro stops of the destinations you choose to visit. Of course, it doesn't bother people who are organized and write things down on little pieces of paper or are not dealing with any of the stages and symptoms of alzheimer's...JS (January '97) Related Pages: Other book reviews Book buying information Language/Culture Related Links: Pretty Good Pronoun Charts Turkish Verbal Nouns Turkish Doubles Troubles Ottoman Empire Encyclopedia James Redhouse -- Dictionary Man 'Learning Practical Turkish' Authors 700 Club of vocabulary head words Turkish Language Learning Tips Turkish People Profiles Modern History of the Turkish Language Turkish Pronunciation Guide Turkish Accenting Turkish Idioms in Plain English General Turkish Word Dictionary -- Online Personal Turkish experiences Turkish Learning Downloads Unrelated fun: Maganda, The Racy Turkish Lout -- a risqué illustration of the word zipper Aysel, The Turkish Lout's daughter -- has a sexy job interview technique Ferdi Tayfur - Arabesque (Arabesk) Singing Sensation Turkish Movies - Best-Looking Bad Girl of the 1970s, Sevda Ferdağ Bad Girls of the 1970s Turkish Cinema, Aliye Rona Traditional Turkish Humor 1 We say softball, you say rounders... Turkish Terms Of Endearment Turkish Personal Names Politically Incorrect Turkish Humor Why Off-Color Turkish is important too Gossipy Turkish Who's Who The World's Worst Sport The 'cold and delicious' ice cream of Kahramanmaraş