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Treasures of the Black Sea   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Eyewitness Guide Istanbul  •   Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  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, $23.00)
  Eyewitness Guide Istanbul
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, $18.00)
  Black Sea
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)
  Borderland, A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
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. (TKY08, $14.00)
  Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place
 

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Turkey Map  •   Freytag & Berndt    •  A shaded relief map of all of Turkey, including the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts. (TKY29, $12.95)
 
 
Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine  •  Linda Hodges  •  George Chumak   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An opinionated travel guide to the region with chapters on Kiev, Crimea and Odessa, as well as an overview of the history of Ukraine. Includes key phrases and language instruction throughout the book. This is the best cultural and travel guide to getting the most out of an extended visit to the Ukraine. (RUS52, $18.95)
 
 
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece  •  Robert Morkot   • REFERENCE  •  This pictorial survey of Greek history, culture and expansion features dozens of full color maps. (GRE125, $18.00)
 
 
1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West  •  Roger Crowley   • HISTORY  •  Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in this nicely paced history. (TKY114, $14.95)
 
 
A Concise History of Bulgaria  •  R.J. Crampton   • HISTORY  •  A highly readable, illustrated introduction to Bulgaria's history from medieval empire to Ottoman rule, revival and modernization, to the fall of Communism. (BGR01, $25.99)
 
 
A Short History of Byzantium  •  John Julius Norwich   • HISTORY  •  A richly detailed and evocative narrative history of the tumultuous span of the great empire from the fourth century to the fifteenth, brimming with intrigue, skullduggery, palace revolution and other treachery. (TKY18, $17.95)
 
 
Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History  •  Seton Lloyd   • HISTORY • BEST SELLER  •  Turkey's archaeology and early history for the traveler by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara. (TKY43, $25.95)
 
 
Balkan Ghosts, A Journey Through History  •  Robert D. Kaplan   • HISTORY  •  In this eloquent, opinionated report, Robert Kaplan interweaves the history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with recent events to paint a portrait of the region. (BLK02, $15.00)
 
 
Harem, The World Behind the Veil  •  Alev Lytle Croutier   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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)
 
 
Russia, A Concise History  •  Ronald Hingley   • HISTORY • BEST SELLER  •  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)
 
 
The Balkans, A Short History  •  Mark Mazower   • HISTORY • BEST SELLER  •  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)
 
 
The Black Sea, A History  •  Charles King   • HISTORY  •  A brisk narrative history of the region showing the Black Sea as uniting diverse cultures in the Balkans, Central Asia and Middle East. (EUR173, $29.95)
 
 
The Classical World, An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian  •  Robin Lane Fox   • HISTORY • NEW  •  Fox conjures tyrants, conquerors and enthralling personalities in this marvelously well written history of ancient Greece and Rome. (GRE293, $18.95)
 
 
The Ottoman Centuries  •  Lord Kinross   • HISTORY  •  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, $18.95)
 
 
Art of the Byzantine Era  •  David Talbot Rice   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An indispensable classic and a thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art, wide-ranging and literate. Though it focuses on early Christian Constantinople, the book also includes chapters on Sicily, Venice and the Slavonic art of the Balkans. (TKY22, $16.95)
 
 
Between the Woods and the Water  •  Patrick Leigh Fermor   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This sequel to A Time of Gifts (CEU30), Fermor's classic account of walking across Europe in 1933, continues with his youthful adventures in Hungary and Romania. The book ends at the Iron Gates, which divide the Carpathian mountains from the Balkans. (CEU31, $15.95)
 
 
Istanbul, Memories and the City  •  Orhan Pamuk   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nobel Prize-winner Pamuk writes with quiet grace of the city of his birth, celebrated in his many novels, a magic place of crumbling wooden mansions and Ottoman riches, mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences. (TKY99, $14.95)
 
 
Lords of the Horizons, A History of the Ottoman Empire  •  Jason Goodwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A wonderful writer and journalist, 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, $16.95)
 
 
On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul  •  Jason Goodwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • OUT OF PRINT  •  A marvelous account of Goodwin's pilgrimage on foot from Gdansk to Constantinople in the early 1990s in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor, interweaving history, incident and reflection. (EUR81, $14.00)
 
 
Return to Ukraine  •  Ania Savage   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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)
 
 
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel  •  Isaac Babel   • LITERATURE  •  An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales. (RUS171, $16.95)
 
 
The Cossacks  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Peter Constantine  •  Cynthia Ozick   • LITERATURE  •  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, it's people and nature -- and an account of falling in love. (RUS241, $11.95)
 
 
The Towers of Trebizond  •  Rose MacAulay  •  Jan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  First published in 1956, this is the impossibly witty account of an eccentric party of Brits who set off for Turkey to establish a mission. Known for her sparkling humor, Macaulay has written a minor masterpiece. (TKY15, $14.95)
 
 


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