Nomads in Anatolia: Encounters with a Vanishing Culture By Harald Böhmer with Josephine Powell and Serife Atlihan

 Foreword by Walter b Denny
 Number of pages 320
Number of pictures 542, charts 19, drawings 23. ‘Buy this book. It is a classic, and its primary approach will not be seen again, for the authors’ friends and subjects - the nomads of Anatolia - have virtually disappeared.’ Robert Chenciner, from the Book Review featured in Cornucopia 39, Spring 2008 Published to coincide with The Splendour of Anatolia exhibition at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam Feb 2nd to June 1st 2008.

'In this new volume, completed with the collaboration of the legendary photographer and ethnographer Josephine Powell and of Dr Atlihan, and magnificently and profusely illustrated with color photographs and line drawings, Böhmer has taken his scientific research, and his unparalleled knowledge of Anatolian carpets and kilims, resulting from decades of fieldwork, into a new level of contextualisation within the vanishing nomadic culture' from the foreword by Walter b Denny. 'For anyone interested in nomads or the nomadic way of life there are tthrillsw and delights on every page of this book;the material it presents is fascinating, extremely scarce, and at times unique. Jon Thompson, from the book review featured in hali Issue 158, Winter 2008