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	Insight Guide Turkey  •   Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 439 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, $22.95)
	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)
	Crescent and Star, Turkey Between Two Worlds  •  Stephen Kinzer HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 252 PAGES An insightful, anecdotal report on contemporary life, culture and politics in Turkey. Kinzer, who was the New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul from 1996-2000, is especially attuned to the powerful geographic position of Turkey and its multiple identities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. (TKY64, $16.00)
	Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History  •  Seton Lloyd HISTORY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES • COMING IN JULY 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, $25.95)
	Turkey Map  •   Freytag & Berndt MAP A double-sided, shaded relief map of all of Turkey, including the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts, at a scale of 1:800,000. Fully indexed. (TKY29, $12.95)

	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, $23.00)
	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  •  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)
	A Traveller's History of Turkey  •  Richard Stoneman   • HISTORY  •  A well-written, accessible overview of Turkish history from the Paleolithic to the present. It includes a chronology of major events, a list of native rulers, further recommended reading, and a gazetteer. (TKY13, $14.95)
	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)
	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  •  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)
	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)
	Travelers' Tales Turkey  •  James Villers   • ANTHOLOGY  •  An engaging, insightful and entertaining selection of eyewitness accounts of Turkey, organized thematically. (TKY71, $18.95)
	Birds Without Wings  •  Louis De Bernieres   • LITERATURE  •  Louis 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, $15.95)
	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, $14.95)
	The Towers of Trebizond  •  Rose MacAulay  •  Jan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  This impossibly witty account of an eccentric party of Brits who set off for Turkey to establish a mission was first published in 1956. Known for her sparkling humor, Macaulay has written a minor masterpiece (TKY15, $14.95)
	Birds of the Middle East  •  R.F. Porter  •  P. Schiermacker-Hansen  •  S. Christensen   • 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. (MDE17, $40.00)

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