Christina Dodwell’s A Traveller On Horseback (1988, Sceptre) is not at all a book without a good map. It has several very nice maps in it! But her account of travelling through rural Turkey on her horse Keyif contains so many intriguing observations that I wanted to capture the places she mentions — in case I wind up in that area one day.

In particular I was intrigued by several Byzantine and Armenian fortresses she mentions, since the premise of another book, a very different book, The Scholar and the Gypsy by James Howard-Johnson and Nigel Ryan is a search, in the same timeperiod, for a particularly elusive Byzantine fortress in the Bingöl Da? area.

I located only places mentioned on the southward portion of her journey from Erzurum to Lake Van (pp. 118 – 142), and then her later journey from Erzurum north (pp. 178 – 191).

This point data is in shapefile format. The projection is EPSG 4236 (Lat/long/WGS84). The data is released as is, spelling mistakes and all.