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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/CE1916. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 3 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXTKY135) |
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Eyewitness Guide Turkey
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book provides a thorough overview of history, traditions and sights. With color photographs and maps.
(TKY82, $30.00) |
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Crescent and Star
• Stephen Kinzer
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2008 •
PAPER
• 265 PAGES
This insightful anecdotal report on contemporary life, culture and politics in Turkey comes 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, $17.00) |
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Turkey Map
• Freytag & Berndt
2011 •
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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Also Recommended
Istanbul Map
• Borch Maps
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Take it along!
(TKY65, $8.95)
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Culture Smart! Turkey
• Charlotte McPherson
• GUIDEBOOK
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Take along this pocket guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(TKY127, $9.95)
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Lonely Planet Istanbul Encounter
• Verity Campbell
• GUIDEBOOK
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With a section of not-to-miss highlights, pull-out map and a calendar of annual events.
(TKY151, $12.99)
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Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook
• Arzu Kurklu
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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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
• COMING IN
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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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1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
• Roger Crowley
• HISTORY
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In this well-paced history, Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.
(TKY114, $15.99)
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A Traveller's History of Turkey
• Richard Stoneman
• HISTORY
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An accessible, well-written overview of Turkish history from the Paleolithic to the present.
(TKY13, $14.95)
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Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History
• Seton Lloyd
• HISTORY
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Turkey's archaeology and early history for the traveler by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara.
(TKY43, $28.95)
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Lords of the Horizons
• Jason Goodwin
• HISTORY
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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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Art of the Byzantine Era
• David Talbot Rice
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic.
(TKY22, $21.95)
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St. Paul's Ephesus, Texts and Archaeology
• Jerome Murphy O'Connor
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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Jerome Murphy-O'Connor transports us back to the ancient city of Ephesus during its heyday, including contemporary accounts from Roman to biblical times, and featuring a guided walk through the city as a center of Paul's teachings.
(TKY226, $29.95)
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Istanbul, Memories and the City
• Orhan Pamuk
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Nobel Prize-winner Pamuk writes with quiet grace of the city of his birth, celebrated in his many novels: a magical place of crumbling mansions and Ottoman riches, mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences.
(TKY99, $16.95)
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Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place
• Mary Lee Settle
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Settle's travelogue is a richly detailed portrait of Turkey, its people, myths, treasures and traditions.
(TKY08, $16.99)
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Turquoise, A Chef's Travels in Turkey
• Greg and Lucy Malouf
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This sumptuous book combines travel, recipes and stunning color photographs of landscapes, people, food and traditions.
(TKY192, $50.00)
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The Fall of Troy
• Peter Ackroyd
• LITERATURE
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Bestselling author Ackroyd's acclaimed novel follows an archaeologist whose ruthless obsession with unearthing Troy raises questions about the malleability of scientific truth.
(MED137, $14.95)
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The Iliad
• Homer
• Robert Fagles
• LITERATURE
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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, $17.00)
(GRE173, $17.00)
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The Janissary Tree
• Jason Goodwin
• MYSTERY
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With beautiful descriptions of Istanbul and its palaces, this engaging and bizarre historical mystery will keep you reading. The Ottoman Empire mysteries continue with The Snake Stone (TKY156, $14.00) and The Bellini Card (TKY191, $25.00), set in 1840s Venice.
(TKY125, $15.00)
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The Towers of Trebizond
• Rose MacAulay
• Jan Morris
• LITERATURE
• COMING IN OCTOBER
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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, $16.00)
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Turkish Coast, Through Writers' Eyes
• Rupert Scott
• ANTHOLOGY
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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Editor Rupert Scott reels in dozens of authors, ancient and modern, for this appealing collection of tales set on the shores of Ancient Caria and Lycia, today's Turquoise Coast, including Homer, Lord Byron, Edith Wharton, Freya Stark and Louis de Bernieres.
(TKY193, $32.95)
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