
Out of Istanbul
A Journey of Discovery Along the Silk Road
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Nigel Patterson
Upon retirement at the age of sixty-two, and grieving his deceased wife, renowned journalist Bernard Ollivier felt a sense of profound emptiness: What do I do now? While some see retirement as a chance to cash in their chips and settle into a comfy armchair, Ollivier still longed for more. Searching for inspiration, he strapped on his gear, donned his hat, and headed out the front door to hike the Way of St. James, a 1400-mile journey from Paris to Compostela, Spain. At the end of that road, with more questions than answers, he decided to spend the next few years hiking another of history's great routes: the Silk Road.
Out of Istanbul is Ollivier's stunning account of the first part of that 7,200-mile journey. The longest and perhaps most mythical trade route of all time, the Silk Road is in fact a network of routes across Europe and Asia, some going back to prehistoric times. During the Middle Ages, the transcribed travelogue of one Silk Road explorer, Marco Polo, helped spread the fame of the Orient throughout Europe.
Ollivier's journey, far from bragging about some tremendous achievement, humbly takes the listener on a colossal adventure of human proportions, one in which walking itself, through a kind of alchemy, fosters friendships and fellowship.
©2001 Bernard Ollivier; English translation copyright 2019 by Daniel Golembeski (P)2022 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















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If you like to read about people and geography and an amazing, gutsy adventure I highly recommend listening.
I am off to book two and his continuing adventures.
My thanks to all involved, JK
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Down to earth travel
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Informative and entertaining
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This book is a call to journey on foot, to take risks, to be curious and rigorous, to embrace solitude and community, even in a tense political climate.
5 star narration. Starting next book in the series momentarily
A cerebral quest and a physical test.
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Amazing Journey
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He shared wisdom earned from walking
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Our guide is a somewhat dull fellow, with few surprising or delightful insights or comments as one would hope for from a travel companion. But he is acceptable, a mundane predictable presence. His many unwise choices about packing, gear needed, clothing, language ability, and judgement of character of those met along the way make one wonder how he lived through his truncated trip. But survive he did, as there are two further books about it; I will not be listening to those. The author is simply not interesting enough to spend any more time with.
Beauty and awful filth in equal parts
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