In the Steps of Saint Paul

Abstract

Early in the 1930s, the travel writer H. V. Morton found himself being questioned by Turkish police as he waited to change trains in the small town of Adana: ‘They want to know what you are doing here,’ [my interpreter] said. ‘I have come to see Tarsus.’ ‘They want to know why.’ ‘Because I am writing a book about St Paul.’ I could see that this shattered the morale of the police force.1