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 Peter
Sommer studied Ancient History & Archaeology at Birmingham
University in England before completing a Masters on the archaeology
of Central Asia. He fell in love with Turkey in 1994 while
walking 2,000 miles from Troy to the battle of Issus, retracing
the route of Alexander the Great. For this epic journey he
received The Explorers Club of America Young Expeditioners'
award.
He has taught at Birmingham University and Istanbul’s
Bogazici University. Two years into a PhD at University College
London, he was seduced into television to work on In
the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (BBC/PBS).
Documentary filmmaking
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Peter
during his Alexander walk '94
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An award winning producer/director,
Peter has shot around the world for films like Millennium:
A thousand years of history (BBC/CNN), and
Commanding
Heights: the Battle for the World Economy
(PBS/BBC).
Other credits include Britain's Finest Castles, Britain's
Finest Ancient Monuments (Channel Five) and Weapons
that Made Britain (C4).
His most recent TV series, Tales from the Green Valley, 12 x
1/2 hrs about life on a farm in the year 1620, was shown on
BBC2 in the UK in the autumn of 2005, to large audiences and
wide critical acclaim.
Travel writing & documentary features
Peter also works as a freelance writer
and photographer, and has written on a range of subjects,
from travel to history, farming to film-making.
Public
speaking: talks and lectures
Peter enjoys giving talks to societies and groups large and
small about Turkey, travel, and his various documentaries. If
you'd like Peter to come and speak, do please get in touch.
Travel and Tour guide
 Peter
has led and organised numerous historical cruises and archaeological
tours in Britain and Turkey. He is passionate about leading
cultural tours and delivering the very finest escorted tours.
He has worked with his Turkish travel parters, Almira Yachting,
since 1996.
Best Guide Nomination
Peter was recently nominated for Wanderlust
Magazine's best guide award. He didn't quite make
it through to the final shortlist but he has received a wonderful
official award certificate as a result of the nomination and
all the glowing testimonies (Wanderlust’s words) that
previous customers sent in. Many thanks to everyone who voted
for Peter - he is very touched and most grateful.
Planning archaeological tours
If you'd like to know how Peter goes about creating our escorted
tours, you can read an article he's written about it : How
to design an archaeological tour
I would
like to say that the holiday was the best we have
ever had...Mr Sommer was so good a tour leader that
it would be hard to think how anyone could have been
better.
Michael Faraday, Walton on Thames, UK
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