Sheila's list of books on the breed.

If anyone obtains these books for their reading pleasure, please keep in mind that many of the stories in these books refer to the Kangal dogs as Karabash and others just refer to the dogs as yellow dogs with black heads.  There are no references to Kangal dogs as a breed prior to the 1980's in the texts and this is NOT politically acceptable by the Turks.  They are Kangal dogs.

1)      Book of Travels Evliya Çelebi (17^th century)

2)      La Guide Marabout des Cheins

3)      Across Asia Minor on Foot W.J.Childs Blackwood & Sons 1917

4)      Gray Wolf – Mustafa Kemal H.C. Armstrong, Minton Baich & Co New York 1933

5)      Turkish Crossroads, Bernard Newman London 1951

6)      Turkey Andrew Falk, Vista Books 1963

7)      Tales Alive in Turkey W Walker & A Vysal Harvard University Press 1966

8)      Everyday Life in Ottoman Turkey Raphaela Lewis 1970?

9)      The Sheep and The Chevrolet Francois Balsan

10)  The Oxford Turkish/English Dictionary 1957 edition

11)Reis en Die Turkei 1599 Helmut Gruner, published around 1600