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Further information concerning charter yachts cruising the Turkish coast and among Greek Aegean islands
may be obtained by clicking on the gray links immediately above. Thank You. You may well be
searching for a princess. Or for Karia, frequently spelled Caria. Or you may simply be searching for a
charter cruise along the Turkish coast and among Greek Aegean islands. Well, in any of those events you've
found an appropriate web page. This page deals with a new yacht built in Bodrum, Turkey, a part of ancient
Karia, and because this yacht is a beauty built to cruise the crossroads of history, she has been named
Princess (of) Karia. There were in the past a number of queens of Karia and while in waiting they might
have been deemed princesses. Among these were the two Artemisias who gained fame at sea and presided over
their realm from Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum. Later there was Ada, made queen by Alexander. She ruled
from Alinda as Alexander had leveled Halicarnassus. The most famous queen of Karia, however, was Aspasia of
Miletus, Miletus a few hours up the coast from Halicarnassus. Born in Karia, she reigned in Athens as
consort of Pericles. So, whether cruising the coast of Turkey from Halicarnassus to Miletus, or beyond in
either direction, or whether cruising among Greek Aegean |
islands in the direction of Athens or back, you will be cruising the crossroads of history
traversed in the past not just by the queens of Karia but by the likes of Alcibiades and Lysander, by the
Hospitaller Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem known more familiarly as the Knights of Rhodes and, later, as
the Knights of Malta, and by corsair giants such as the brothers Barbarossa and such as Turgut known to the
west as Dragut. Should you be cruising with children, or with adults having gaps in their education, and
should you not wish to bring along history texts, you might do instead with two of the more readable works
of prose in the English language. The first of these is entitled The Life Of Greece. Written by Will
Durant (that's him depicted to the left), this astoundingly readable history of Greece may be the best single
book on history ever written. It deals only in passing with war, for as Durant notes, "for though
there is drama in the details of strife, there is a dreary eternity in its causes and results.....in which
victories and defeats cancel one another into a resounding zero." Rather, this spell-binding story
of civilization's early years deals with the import of art and science in its many guises and personalities.
And should you be looking for near-peers of this book, look no further than the other ten volumes of Durant's
The Story of Civilization. It was only in part for The Story of Civilization that he shared a
Pulitzer Prize with his wife Ariel Durant and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. First published
in 1939 this historic work is still available new or used from Amazon.com. Also dealing with charter cruising
along the Turkish coast and among Greek Aegean islands is George E. Bean's Aegean Turkey first published
in 1966 and also still available from Amazon.com. Not the first but undoubtedly the most thorough and most
lucid of explorers along these shores was England's Bean. Between 1947 and 1977 this six foot six inch former
Wimbledon tennis player fluent in both ancient Greek and cosmopolitan Turkish may have examined every ancient
stone on the coastal fringes of Turkey and on nearby
Dodecanese islands of Greece. More importantly, he published his extensive findings in a series of highly
readable books, books which tie to history both the epigraphical inscriptions he read on those stones as well
as his other discoveries. George Bean's history, like Durant's history, reads like prose, and it is indispensable
to anyone with an educational interest in local archaeology or history. Charter a sailing yacht to cruise in George
Bean's footsteps! Find out for yourself! With his books in hand! Sail Alexander's Path down the coast of Asia Minor.
Cruise Cleopatra's Routes along the coasts of ancient Lycia and Karia and among Greek Aegean islands. While you
holiday. While you have a holiday with family and friends proceeding leisurely from one historically
remarkable locale to another. Yes, charter a yacht to cruise the coast of Turkey and among nearby Aegean
islands of Greece. Starting in Bodrum. Are you searching for Bodrum in Turkey? Well, it is eleven nautical
miles NE of Kos Town on the Greek island of the same name, and about twenty kilometers from its own
international airport. In Bodrum or in Kos we can put you aboard a charter sailing yacht for the holiday of a
lifetime. We can put you aboard a charter yacht and show you Alexander's Path south from the Troad and east
long the coasts of Karia and Lycia, show you Cleopatra's Routes up the coast of Asia Minor and among Greek
Aegean islands, and show you where to find an incredible variety of history in the Durant and Bean guides.
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