Marrin's Bookshop

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8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. ix + [iii] + 243 + [1] pp. Bound in original pale blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, with a little edge wear and sunned spine. Minor wear to extremities and slight top edge sunning; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white photographic plates and by double page map. Map endpapers. Account of the author's solo visit to the Turkey of sixty years ago and her experiences of the Turks she encountered. Nancy Phelan (1913-2008) was an Australian writer on travel and yoga, biographer and novelist.