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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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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
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
Kaplan interweaves the history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with his travels in this portrait of the region.
(BLK02, $16.00)
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
Trevor Royle
HISTORY
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, $24.95)
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
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
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, $35.00)
The Classical World, An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian
Robin Lane Fox
HISTORY
Fox conjures tyrants, conquerors and enthralling personalities in this marvelously 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
Fermor's classic account of walking across Europe in 1933 continues with his youthful adventures in Hungary and Romania, culminating with his arrival at the Iron Gates, marking the divide with the Balkan Peninsula.
(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 mansions and Ottoman riches, mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences.
(TKY99, $15.95)
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, $17.00)
On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul
Jason Goodwin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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)
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)
Flashman at the Charge
George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE
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)
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, $17.95)
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 -- and an account of falling in love.
(RUS241, $11.95)
The Towers of Trebizond
Rose MacAulay
Jan Morris
LITERATURE
Known for her sparkling humor, Macaulay's minor masterpiece follows an eccentric party of Brits who set off for Turkey to establish a mission. The novel was first published in 1956.
(TKY15, $14.95)
Noah's Flood, The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
William Ryan
Walter Pitman
SCIENCE
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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