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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $95, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXTKY82)		  
Insight Guide Turkey  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES
An outstanding overview of the country from the reliable Insight crew, featuring hundreds of photographs and observant essays on history, culture and nature. With separate chapters on Istanbul, Ephesus, the Aegean Coast, Lycia, and Cappadocia. (TKY38, $24.99)		   Insight Guide Turkey
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, $16.99)		   Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place
Crescent and Star  •  Stephen Kinzer
HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 265 PAGES
This insightful anecdotal report on contemporary life, culture and politics in Turkey comes from a former New York Times Istanbul bureau chief who is especially attuned to the powerful geographic position of Turkey and its multiple identities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. (TKY64, $17.00)		   Crescent and Star
Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History  •  Seton Lloyd
HISTORY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
Written by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara, this book is an indispensable guide to Turkey's ancient civilizations and monuments. It's a lively tale of cultures and conquest, from the Hittites to St. Paul, that illuminates the living past of Turkey's archaeological treasures. With maps, drawings, site plans and a section of color photographs. (TKY43, $28.95)		   Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History
Turkey Map  •  Freytag & Berndt
2011 •  MAP
A shaded relief map of all Turkey, including the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts at a scale of 1:2,000,000 with a more detailed map of Western Turkey on the reverse (1:800,000). With a detailed, 32-page index. Two Sides. 35x44 inches. (TKY29, $14.95)		   Turkey Map



Also Recommended

Eyewitness Guide Istanbul  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
 		  
The Sultan's Kitchen, A Turkish Cookbook  •  Ozcan Ozan   • FOOD  •  A nicely illustrated cookbook, featuring authentic recipes from Ozcan's restaurant of the same name in Boston, an overview of Turkish ingredients and menu suggestions. (TKY107, $26.95)
 		  
1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West  •  Roger Crowley   • HISTORY  •  In this well-paced history, Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. (TKY114, $15.99)
 		  
A Short History of Byzantium  •  John Julius Norwich   • HISTORY  •  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)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Turkey  •  Richard Stoneman   • HISTORY  •  An accessible, well-written overview of Turkish history from the Paleolithic to the present. (TKY13, $14.95)
 		  
Harem, The World Behind the Veil  •  Alev Lytle Croutier   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • COMING IN  •  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)
 		  
Istanbul, the Imperial City  •  John Freely   • HISTORY  •  A lively, anecdotal history of the city geared for the traveler. With historic and modern photographs and neighborhood maps. Freely concludes with a helpful, 60-page section on monuments and museums. (TKY23, $17.00)
 		  
Art of the Byzantine Era  •  David Talbot Rice   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic. (TKY22, $21.95)
 		  
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 magical place of crumbling mansions and Ottoman riches, mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences. (TKY99, $16.95)
 		  
Lords of the Horizons  •  Jason Goodwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
 		  
Birds Without Wings  •  Louis De Bernieres   • LITERATURE  •  De Bernieres offers sweeping historical scope, memorable characters, drama and many new vocabulary words in this stupendous novel set in Anatolia during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. (TKY91, $16.00)
 		  
Memed, My Hawk  •  Yasar Kemal   • LITERATURE  •  From Turkey's master storyteller comes this deceptively simple tale of a rebellious boy in the Taurus mountains of rural Turkey. (TKY57, $15.95)
 		  
Snow  •  Orhan Pamuk  •  Maureen Freely   • LITERATURE  •  The prominent contemporary Turkish author examines the clash between East and West in this story of a snowbound village and its inhabitants in modern Turkey. (TKY93, $15.95)
 		  
The Towers of Trebizond  •  Rose MacAulay  •  Jan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 		  
Birds of the Middle East  •  Richard Porter  •  Simon Aspinall   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An outstanding guide to 700 species of the birds in the region from the Arabian peninsula to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Cyprus. Second edition. (MDE17, $39.95)
 		  
 
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