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Rough Guide Turkey •  Rosie Ayliffe •  Mark Dubin •  John Gawthrop
GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER • 1072 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the history culture and attractions of Trurkey for the visitor. (TKY48, $24.99)

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, $25.95)

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)

Turkey Map •   Freytag & Berndt
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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, $12.95)

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Eyewitness Guide Turkey •   Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of Turkey, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. (TKY82, $25.00)

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)

Turkish, A Rough Guide Phrasebook •   Rough Guide • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A pocket dictionary, phrasebook and mini-guide to the Turkish language. (TKY61, $6.99)

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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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Ataturk, The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey •  Andrew Mango • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Mango expertly traces Ataturk's rise to power after World War I, when this complex leader created the modern Turkish state and redefined the relationship between Europe and the Middle East. (TKY52, $24.95)

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)

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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	Rough Guide Turkey • Rosie Ayliffe • Mark Dubin • John Gawthrop GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • PAPER • 1072 PAGES A comprehensive guide to the history culture and attractions of Trurkey for the visitor. (TKY48, $24.99)
	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, $25.95)
	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)
	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, $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)
	Eyewitness Guide Turkey • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of Turkey, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. (TKY82, $25.00)
	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)
	Turkish, A Rough Guide Phrasebook • Rough Guide • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A pocket dictionary, phrasebook and mini-guide to the Turkish language. (TKY61, $6.99)
	Walking • Henry David Thoreau • REFERENCE • You may want to carry this small volume in your daypack for inspiration. In it, Thoreau offers his meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel. (WLK04, $9.95)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	Ataturk, The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey • Andrew Mango • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Mango expertly traces Ataturk's rise to power after World War I, when this complex leader created the modern Turkish state and redefined the relationship between Europe and the Middle East. (TKY52, $24.95)
	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)
	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)