Ebook {Epub PDF} A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat by Jeremy Seal

Jeremy Seal set out across Turkey, in the extremes of winter, to trace the astonishing history of a cone-shaped hat. He soon saw the fez as the key by which Turkey, beset by contradictions, might be understood. An engaging and agile mix of history and travel, politics and reportage, A Fez of the Heart is a deeply instructive piece of contemporary social history as well as a highly entertaining insight into . A fez of the heart: travels around Turkey in search of a hat. [Jeremy Seal] -- The author recounts his adventures traveling through Turkey in search of the history of the fez, using it as a key to understanding the country's history and culture.  · A subtitle nicely captures the essence of the book: "Travels around Turkey in search of a hat." The hat is the fez, a bright red cone ending in a flat top, once the national headgear of Turkey. More than a hat, it was a symbol, and both its arrival and departure marked major shifts in the destiny of Turkey. The fez was decreed in by Sultan Mahmoud II as a symbol of a multi-cultural Ottoman /5.

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Inspired by a dusty fez in his parents' attic, Jeremy Seal set off in to trace the astonishing history of this cone-shaped hat. Soon the quintessentially Turkish headgear became the key to. While living and teaching in Turkey for several years, Jeremy Seals developed an obsession for the fez, a hat he believes has come to symbolize the soul of the country. Through interviews with villagers and historical essays, Seals chronicles his journey through Turkey, to areas both metropolitan and remote, to find the heart of the country as embodied by its national head gear. A fez of the heart: travels around Turkey in search of a hat. [Jeremy Seal] -- The author recounts his adventures traveling through Turkey in search of the history of the fez, using it as a key to understanding the country's history and culture.