Selby travels through a part of Turkey generally off-limits to foreign visitors - for good reason: the PKK (Kurdish party) regularly kidnaps foreigners. She meets with a fair amount of hostility from locals, though many Kurds befriend her as well; I found her take on that situation objectively balanced. Also featured is her interest in Armenian historical sites, as well as visits to the only active Christian communities in the nation (Syrian Orthodox) outside Istanbul. ( )