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SMITHSONIAN JOURNEYS
Treasures of the Black Sea
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Istanbul
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
This superb guide to Istanbul features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(TKY86, $25.00) |
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Black Sea
• Neal Ascherson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1996 •
PAPER
• 306 PAGES
A vivid and entertaining exploration of the Black Sea, with its unique mingling of cultures. Ascherson skillfully interweaves nature, politics, and culture as he describes both the history of the region and the current state of affairs.
(RUS46, $19.00) |
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Borderland, A Journey through the History of Ukraine
• Anna Reid
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
A lively survey of the traditions and history of Ukraine, organized geographically. Reid, who was for three years the Kiev correspondent for the Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in this insightful portrait of the region.
(RUS84, $17.00) |
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Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place
• Mary Lee Settle
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1991 •
PAPER
• 253 PAGES
A cross-country odyssey from the Aegean shores to the Bosporus and interior by an author and poet who lived in Bodrum 20 years before. Settle's captivating travelogue is a richly detailed portrait of contemporary Turkey, its people, monasteries, myths, archaeological treasures and living traditions. Exemplary.
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Also Recommended
1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
• Roger Crowley
• HISTORY
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In this well-paced history, Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.
(TKY114, $15.99)
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A Short History of Byzantium
• John Julius Norwich
• HISTORY
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A richly detailed and evocative history of the tumultuous span of the great empire from the fourth century to the 15th, brimming with intrigue, skullduggery, palace revolution and other treachery.
(TKY18, $19.00)
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Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History
• Seton Lloyd
• HISTORY
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Turkey's archaeology and early history for the traveler by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara.
(TKY43, $28.95)
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
• Trevor Royle
• HISTORY
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A well-researched military and diplomatic history of the Crimean War. Thorough and detailed yet readable, Royle's battlefield descriptions are especially well-done.
(CCS33, $35.00)
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Harem, The World Behind the Veil
• Alev Lytle Croutier
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• COMING IN
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A fascinating illustrated look at the culture of the Harem -- particularly the well-known quarters at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The author combines interviews, history and a wonderful selection of art in this intriguing book.
(ARB23, $25.00)
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Russia, A Concise History
• Ronald Hingley
• HISTORY
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Well-known scholar Hingley sketches Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire in this highly readable, well-illustrated brief history.
(RUS04, $19.95)
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The Balkans, A Short History
• Mark Mazower
• HISTORY
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A brief, provocative survey of the complex and often contentious history of the Balkans. With eloquence and insight, Mazower addresses the issues of geography, nationalism and modern nation-building in the region.
(BLK28, $13.95)
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The Black Sea, A History
• Charles King
• HISTORY
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A brisk history of the region, showing the Black Sea as uniting diverse cultures in the Balkans, Central Asia and the Middle East.
(EUR173, $35.00)
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The Classical World
• Robin Lane Fox
• HISTORY
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Fox conjures tyrants, conquerors and enthralling personalities, from Homer to Hadrian, in this marvelously written history of ancient Greece and Rome.
(GRE293, $19.99)
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The Ottoman Centuries
• Lord Kinross
• HISTORY
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A richly detailed, engrossing history of the Ottoman Empire from its dawn in 1300 up to the foundation of the modern republic in 1923, enhanced by maps and photos.
(ITL54, $18.99)
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Art of the Byzantine Era
• David Talbot Rice
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic.
(TKY22, $21.95)
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Balkan Ghosts, A Journey through History
• Robert D. Kaplan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Kaplan interweaves the history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with his travels in this portrait of the region.
(BLK02, $17.00)
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Between the Woods and the Water
• Patrick Leigh Fermor
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Fermor continues with youthful adventures in Hungary and Romania, culminating with his arrival at the Iron Gates on the Danube.
(CEU31, $15.95)
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Istanbul, Memories and the City
• Orhan Pamuk
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Nobel Prize-winner Pamuk writes with quiet grace of the city of his birth, celebrated in his many novels: a magical place of crumbling mansions and Ottoman riches, mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences.
(TKY99, $16.95)
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Lords of the Horizons
• Jason Goodwin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Goodwin artfully combines his modern travels with scholarship, history and reflection, capturing the outrageous personalities, events and vagaries of the 600-year-old Ottoman empire.
(TKY44, $17.00)
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On Foot to the Golden Horn
• Jason Goodwin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Goodwin interweaves history, incident and reflection in this excellent portrait of Central Europe. With chapters on Cracow, Slovakia, Budapest, Transylvania, Brasov and Bulgaria.
(EUR81, $17.00)
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Return to Ukraine
• Ania Savage
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An engaging account of a return journey to Ukraine by a journalist who fled the country with her family in 1944. Savage interweaves history, modern travelogue and personal anecdote.
(RUS126, $29.95)
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Flashman at the Charge
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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In this installment in the rollicking, masterfully researched series of historical novels, our disreputable hero finds himself in Crimea -- and a participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade.
(CCS29, $15.00)
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
• Isaac Babel
• LITERATURE
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An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales.
(RUS171, $18.95)
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The Cossacks
• Leo Tolstoy
• Peter Constantine
• Cynthia Ozick
• LITERATURE
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A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough-and-ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks -- and an account of falling in love.
(RUS241, $13.00)
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The Towers of Trebizond
• Rose MacAulay
• Jan Morris
• LITERATURE
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Mixing high farce, archaeology, history and lively travel writing, MacAulay's impossibly clever short novel follows the adventures of English missionaries traipsing across Turkey.
(TKY15, $15.95)
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Noah's Flood, The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
• William Ryan
• Walter Pitman
• SCIENCE
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Yes, there was a flood! So report the scientist-authors in this vivid account of the geology of the Black Sea. They draw on biblical history, marine geology, archaeology and mythology to demonstrate that the Black Sea was breached by the Mediterranean 7,600 years ago.
(BLK42, $16.00)
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