Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea

Tom Brosnahan went to Turkey in 1967 as an American Peace Corps Volunteer. He taught English for a year, then had an idea: why not write a guidebook? Turkey was beautiful, friendly, inexpensive and undiscovered. Turkey on 5 a Day (Frommer's , 1971) soon became the most popular guide to the country; his Lonely Planet Turkey guide (1985) was its all-time best-seller, and his turkeytravelplannerdotcom website now hosts well over a million visitors a year. Along the way, the author starred in a movie, sipped champagne with "fat capitalists" in the sultan's gilded palace, fell in love at a circumcision party, almost got eaten by wolves on the Iranian border, drank endless cups of strong tea - and laughed at it all! So what's it like to be a travel writer? Is it in fact the best job in the world? How do you get to be one? Does it answer the question of what we are all doing on this planet anyway? Find out in Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea!