Not a bad idea -- I've only read his book on the formerly-Ottoman world (_Eastward to Tartary_, I think), but this sounds worth looking up. Have you come acros

Not a bad idea -- I've only read his book on the formerly-Ottoman world (_Eastward to Tartary_, I think), but this sounds worth looking up. Have you come across Tony Horwitz? He's goofier than Kaplan, but his writing scratches the same itch.