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Eyewitness Guide Turkey
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2008 FLEXI-BOUND 432 PAGES
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)
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 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)
Athens Map
World Mapping Project
A map of the center of Athens and surroundings.
(GRE160, $8.99)
Culture Smart! Turkey
Charlotte McPherson
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(TKY127, $9.95)
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 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, $12.00)
Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook
Arzu Kurklu
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
With essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(TKY115, $8.99)
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)
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)
Islam, The Straight Path
John L. Esposito
RELIGION
A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tome intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader.
(MDE22, $39.95)
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)
Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome
Christopher Scarre
HISTORY
A vivid overview of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and its expansion throughout North Africa and the Mediterranean. Illustrated with ingenious color maps on many topics (political borders, trade, defense, religion) and 80 color photographs.
(ITL29, $16.95)
The Ottoman Centuries
Lord Kinross
HISTORY
A richly detailed, engrossing history of the Ottoman empire from its dawn in 1300 up to the foundation of the modern republic in 1923, enhanced by maps and photos.
(ITL54, $18.95)
Turkey, A Modern History
Erik Zurcher
HISTORY
A lively historical account of the Turkish state from 1780 to the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923. Special attention is given to the "Young Turk" movement and Kemil Ataturk in this comprehensive volume.
(TKY10, $32.00)
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)
A Fez of the Heart, Travels around Turkey in Search of a Hat
Jeremy Seal
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The engaging travelogue -- modern Turkey and the dramatic changes since the rise of Kemil Ataturk (who banned the Fez in 1925) -- deftly combines reporting, history, politics and travel.
(TKY16, $16.00)
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)
Portrait of a Turkish Family
Irfan Orga
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This splendid memoir of life in Istanbul in the years surrounding World War I captures the spirit and flavor of the city in the last days of the Ottoman empire. Orga's son supplies an illuminating forward, filling in biographical details.
(TKY83, $32.95)
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 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, $16.00)
(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, $16.00)
The Towers of Trebizond
Rose MacAulay
Jan Morris
LITERATURE
Known for her sparkling humor, Macaulay's minor masterpiece follows an eccentric party of Brits who set off for Turkey to establish a mission. The novel was first published in 1956.
(TKY15, $14.95)
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