Wild and/or Beautiful?: The representation of the American West from a Twenty-First Century Turkish Perspective

2012-01-01
Gürsel, Bahar
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B. Gürsel, Wild and/or Beautiful?: The representation of the American West from a Twenty-First Century Turkish Perspective. 2012, p. 224.
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