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Eyewitness Guide Greek Islands
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 400 PAGES
BEST SELLER
This guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and an island-by-island synopsis of attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this compact book provides an essential overview of the Greek Islands (with a chapter on Athens and a section on practicalities).
(GRE37, $28.00)
Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History
Marina Belozerskaya Kenneth Lapatin
ART & ARCHITECTURE 2004 PAPER 144 PAGES
A lively guide to architecture, painting and sculpture of ancient Greece, featuring 282 color and 28 black-and-white illustrations. The authors cover the development of art and architecture from the third millennium to the fifth century BCE, taking in not only mainland Greece but also the temples of Southern Italy and Sicily.
(GRE194, $19.95)
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)
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)
Greece Map
Michelin Travel Publications
2005 MAP
An excellent, large map of mainland Greece and the islands across to Turkey at a scale of 1:700,000. With good topographic detail, roads and attractions. Unlike many Greece maps, this one includes the Turkish coast from Istanbul south to the latitude of Rhodes. One Side. 39x61 inches.
(GRE65, $12.95)
Greece and Western Turkey Map
Hallwag
A detailed map of Greece, includes Western Turkey, imported from Switzerland.
(GRE39, $15.95)
Eyewitness Top Ten Athens
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions, events, restaurants, shops and excursions in Athens.
(GRE219, $14.00)
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)
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)
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, $26.95)
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)
Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire
Bernard Lewis
HISTORY
FAVORITE
In this slim volume the great Islamic scholar describes the invasion of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks on May 29, 1453, evoking the city at this pivotal moment in its long history.
(TKY17, $24.95)
Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, The World of the Romans
John Boardman
HISTORY
An authoritative reader on ancient Greece, fully illustrated.
(GRE13, $22.50)
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter
Thomas Cahill
HISTORY
Cahill sketches ancient Greek society and civilization through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, a poet, philosopher and artist in this eloquent, absorbing tribute.
(GRE182, $16.00)
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)
Dinner with Persephone
Patricia Storace
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The pleasures and complexities of contemporary Greece, marvelously described by an American poet spending a year there. Storace intertwines her own perceptions with the history of the country and the influence of pop culture on the classical landscape.
(GRE28, $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, $16.00)
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)
The Colossus of Maroussi
Henry Miller
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
BEST SELLER
FAVORITE
Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek people in this inspired tale of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu and Delphi with his friend Lawrence Durrell.
(GRE05, $14.95)
Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Artemis Leontis
ANTHOLOGY
Twenty-four contemporary Greek writers, both well-known and up-and-coming, introduce Greek culture, people and landscapes in this terrific anthology.
(GRE190, $14.95)
Travelers' Tales Turkey
James Villers
ANTHOLOGY
An engaging, insightful and entertaining selection of eyewitness accounts of Turkey, organized thematically.
(TKY71, $18.95)
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)
The Odyssey
Homer
Robert Fagles
LITERATURE
Translator Robert Fagles captures the poetry and power of The Odyssey in this translation, celebrated for its clarity and expressiveness.
(GRE45, $17.00)
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, $14.95)
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