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These 5 items are available for $82, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXMED353)

Eyewitness Guide Greek Islands  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES 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, $25.00)
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)
The Search for Ancient Greece  •  Roland Etienne  •  Francoise Etienne ARCHAEOLOGY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 175 PAGES This portrait of the history of archaeology features hundreds of color photos and paintings, a chronology and excerpts by the great archaeologists. It's a pocket-size encyclopedia, part of the "Discoveries" series, and a fascinating look at the meaning of ancient Greece to our civilization -- quite an accomplishment for such a slim book. (GRE01, $12.95)
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)
Mediterranean Sea Map  •  Freytag & Berndt 2005 •  MAP • BEST SELLER A double-sided, full-color map of the Mediterranean, including the Iberian Peninsula and Black Sea, North Africa and the Levant, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (MED36, $12.95)

Greece and Western Turkey Map  •  Hallwag    •  A detailed map of Greece, includes Western Turkey, imported from Switzerland. (GRE39, $12.95)
Turkish Coast Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A nicely detailed laminated map of Western Turkey and the coast from Istanbul to Antalya at a scale of 1:800,000. (TKY103, $10.95)
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)
Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History  •  Seton Lloyd   • HISTORY • COMING IN JULY  •  Turkey's archaeology and early history for the traveler by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara. (TKY43, $25.95)
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, $19.95)
Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History  •  Marina Belozerskaya  •  Kenneth Lapatin   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This lively, illustrated guide covers architecture, painting and sculpture of ancient Greece from the third millennium to the fifth century B.C. With 282 color and 28 black-and-white illustrations. (GRE194, $16.95)
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)
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 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)
The Colossus of Maroussi  •  Henry Miller   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 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  •  This collection of 24 stories and essays by modern Greek writers focuses on Greek culture, people and landscapes. A wonderful introduction. (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's translation of The Odyssey. (Item no. GRE45, $16.00) (GRE173, $15.95)
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, $16.00)
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)