Meander

The Meander is a river so famously winding that its name has long since come to signify the frustrations and the virtues of the indirect approach; an approach that the author makes use of while traveling the length of the river alone and by kayak.

Jeremy Seal, a natural raconteur, takes readers from the Meander''s source in the uplands of Central Turkey to its mouth on the Aegean, with as many hist...