The towers of Trebizond

Rose Macaulay

Published by Macdonald Futura , softcover



"Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass'

And so, in the depths of Oxfordshire, begins the adventure which will take aunt
Dot on her camel across Europe to the high-walled ancient citadel of Trebizond
on the Black Sea.

With her she takes her niece (the narrator of the story) and Father Hugh
Chantry-Pigg. Aunt Dot's object is to liberate the women of Turkey. Father
Chantry-Pigg's is to convert them to the High Anglican church. What ensues is one of the most exotic, eccentric and hilarious adventures ever dreamed up by ainovelist.