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Rough Guide Turkey
Rosie Ayliffe
Mark Dubin
John Gawthrop
GUIDEBOOK
2010
PAPER
784 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the history culture and attractions of Trurkey for the visitor.
(TKY48, $24.99) |
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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, $26.95) |
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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.
(TKY08, $14.00) |
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Turkey Map
Freytag & Berndt
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) |
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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) |
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Eyewitness Guide Turkey
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
COMING IN MARCH
Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book provides a thorough overview of Turkey, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and maps.
(TKY82, $30.00) |
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Fodor's Istanbul's 25 Best
Fodor's Guides
GUIDEBOOK
CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
This slim guide with a pullout map covers with style what to see, where to go and what to do.
(TKY185, $11.95) |
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Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook
Arzu Kurklu
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
With essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(TKY115, $8.99) |
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The Western Shores of Turkey, Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts
John Freely
GUIDEBOOK
An excellent overview of the ancient sites of the Turkish coast from Gallipoli to Antioch, Pergamum, Ephesus and Halicarnassus.
(TKY07, $24.95) |
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Walking
Henry David Thoreau
REFERENCE
Slip this pocket edition of Thoreau's meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel in your daypack for inspiration.
(WLK04, $9.99) |
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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 well-paced history.
(TKY114, $14.99) |
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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) |
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A Traveller's History of Turkey
Richard Stoneman
HISTORY
An accessible, well-written 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) |
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Crescent and Star, Turkey Between Two Worlds
Stephen Kinzer
HISTORY
An insightful, anecdotal report on contemporary life, culture and politics in Turkey, 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, $16.00) |
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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) |
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Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey
Hugh Pope
HISTORY
Written by a husband and wife team based in Istanbul, this engaging popular history focuses on the many paradoxes of Turkey since World War I. It's an opinionated, revealing portrait of the nation by two knowledgeable journalists.
(TKY33, $22.95) |
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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) |
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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, $16.00) |
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Lords of the Horizons
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) |
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Travelers' Tales Turkey
James Villers
ANTHOLOGY
An engaging, insightful and entertaining selection of eyewitness accounts of Turkey, organized thematically.
(TKY71, $18.95) |
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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, $16.00) |
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The Iliad
Homer
Robert Fagles
LITERATURE
In the excellent Fagles translation -- here presented in a deluxe paper edition -- Homer's Trojan epic hasn't aged a bit in the last 2,700 years. Take it along to Troy and the Aegean. We also carry Fagles' translation of The Odyssey. (Item no. GRE45, $17.00)
(GRE173, $17.00) |
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