Hailed as an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I
have read since I can't remember when by The New York Times when it
was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's The Towers of
Trebizond tells the gleefully absurd story of Aunt Dot, Father
Chantry-Pigg, Aunt Dot's deranged camel, and our narrator, Laurie, who
are traveling from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond on a convoluted
mission. Along the way they will encounter spies, a Greek sorcerer, a
precocious ape, and Billy Graham with a busload of evangelists. Part
travelogue, part comedy, it is also a meditation on love, faith, doubt,
and the difficulties, moral and intellectual, of being a Christian in
the modern world.