Turkey: a Lonely Planet Travel Atlas

by Tom Brosnahan, Lonely Planet

Part of the Lonely Planet series of travel atlases, this guide to Turkey provides full-colour maps throughout, with a comprehensive index ensuring easy location-finding.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

In 1968, Tom Brosnahan wrote the first budget guidebook to Turkey as a Peace Corps project. Instead of completing work on a Ph.D. in History, he turned to travel writing and authored dozens of best-selling guidebooks for Frommer's, Lonely Planet and Berlitz. In 2000 he described it all in his humorous travel memoir, "Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea" (2005).

In 2000 he transitioned to the Web, where his websites guided millions of travelers from 230+ countries.

In 2016, standing in Istanbul's Sultan Ahmet Square, he remembered how it looked in 1968 during the hippy era. Characters appeared in his imagination, he wrote down their antics, and within a week he had 30,000 words of a humorous novel: "Istanbul Love Bus" (2018).

"Paris Girls Secret Society" (2017) was to be a sequel, but new characters appeared instead. Some of the Istanbul characters reappear on a Greek island in "Alexandros - the island" (2024). Fascinated by the similarities between today's world and the Gilded Age, he wrote "Serene - a novel of the Belle Époque" (2022).

Another humorous travel memoir centered on food is in the works (2025), as is another novel.