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Istanbul, Memories and the City

by Orhan Pamuk

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2006
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

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)

A Traveller's History of Turkey

by Richard Stoneman

• HISTORY
• 2009
• PAPER
• 247 PAGES

An accessible, well-written overview of Turkish history from the Paleolithic to the present. (TKY13, $14.95)

Eyewitness Guide Turkey

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• FLEXI-BOUND
• 432 PAGES

Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book provides a thorough overview of history, traditions and sights. (TKY82, $30.00)

Turkey Map

by Freytag & Berndt

• 2011
• MAP

This shaded relief map includes a detailed map of Western Turkey (1:800,000) on the reverse. (TKY29, $14.95)

 

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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey

by Mitchell Reddish | Clyde Fant

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2003
• PAPER
• 395 PAGES

A guide to the places, history and archaeology of the journeys of the Apostle Paul across Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus, geared for the traveler. (MED90, $29.99)

Culture Smart! Turkey

by Charlotte McPherson

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2006
• PAPER
• 168 PAGES

Take along this pocket guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (TKY127, $9.95)

Fodor's Turkey

by Caroli Trefler

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 496 PAGES

This practical guide, from the popular series, is saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and restaurants. (TKY160, $23.99)

Istanbul Eats

by Yigal Schleifer | Ansel Mullins

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 173 PAGES

With maps, photographs and a very readable full page on each spot, this handy guide includes hundreds of discoveries from Sultanahmet to Beyaglu, Galata, the Bosphorus and beyond. (TKY245, $16.95)

Lonely Planet Istanbul Encounter

by Verity Campbell

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 176 PAGES

With a section of not-to-miss highlights, pull-out map and a calendar of annual events. (TKY151, $12.99)

Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook

by Arzu Kurklu

• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• 2008
• PAPER
• 259 PAGES

With essential vocabulary for the traveler. (TKY115, $8.99)

The Western Shores of Turkey, Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts

by John Freely

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2004
• PAPER
• 403 PAGES

An excellent overview of the ancient sites of the Turkish coast from Gallipoli to Antioch, Pergamum, Ephesus and Halicarnassus. (TKY07, $24.95)

Classical Turkish Cooking

by Ayla Esen Algar

• FOOD
• 1999
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Algar's enchanting cookbook includes easy-to-follow Turkish recipes and delightful vignettes about their traditional origins. Everything we've made has been fantastic! (TKY255, $19.99)

Turquoise, A Chef's Travels in Turkey

by Greg and Lucy Malouf

• FOOD
• 2008
• HARD COVER
• 356 PAGES

This sumptuous book combines travel, recipes and stunning color photographs of landscapes, people, food and traditions. (TKY192, $50.00)

1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

by Roger Crowley

• HISTORY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

In this well-paced history, Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. (TKY114, $15.99)

A Short History of Byzantium

by John Julius Norwich

• HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 432 PAGES

A richly detailed and evocative history of the tumultuous span of the great empire from the fourth century to the 15th, brimming with intrigue, skullduggery, palace revolution and other treachery. (TKY18, $19.00)

Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History

by Seton Lloyd

• HISTORY
• 1999
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

Turkey's archaeology and early history for the traveler by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara. (TKY43, $28.95)

Crescent and Star

by Stephen Kinzer

• HISTORY
• 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)

Islam, The Straight Path

by John L. Esposito

• RELIGION
• 2010
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tone intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader. (MDE22, $47.95)

Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire

by Bernard Lewis

• HISTORY
• 1989
• PAPER
• 187 PAGES
• 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)

The Ottoman Centuries

by Lord Kinross

• HISTORY
• 1988
• PAPER
• 638 PAGES

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, $18.99)

Turkey, A Short History

by Norman Stone

• HISTORY
• 2011
• HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES

Stone looks especially to the relation of Turkey to its neighbors and place in the wider world in this fast-paced, opinionated history. (TKY261, $37.50)

Turkey, What Everyone Needs to Know

by Andrew Finkel

• HISTORY
• 2011
• PAPER
• 188 PAGES

From the Kurdish question to economic policy, from Turkey's role in Iraq to its quest for EU membership, Finkel illuminates the past and present of this strategically important nation. (TKY230, $16.95)

Art of the Byzantine Era

by David Talbot Rice

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 1985
• PAPER
• 286 PAGES

Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic. (TKY22, $21.95)

Sites of Antiquity, From Ancient Egypt to the Fall of Rome

by Charles Freeman

• ARCHAEOLOGY
• 2009
• HARD COVER
• 248 PAGES

Enticing aerial shots, detailed site plans, glorious modern photographs and illustrations illuminate 50 key monuments, cities or sites of the Mediterranean world, from Giza, Luxor and Karnak to the Parthenon, Ephesus, Pergamon, Petra and Constantinople. (MED150, $50.00)

St. Paul's Ephesus, Texts and Archaeology

by Jerome Murphy O'Connor

• ARCHAEOLOGY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 289 PAGES

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)

Lords of the Horizons

by Jason Goodwin

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2003
• PAPER
• 351 PAGES

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)

Rumi, Past and Present, East and West : The Life, Teaching, and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi

by Franklin D. Lewis

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2007
• PAPER
• 686 PAGES

This award winning work examines the background and the continuing significance of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Includes new translations of over fifty of Rumi's poems and never before seen prose. (TKY263, $29.95)

Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place

by Mary Lee Settle

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1991
• PAPER
• 253 PAGES

Settle's travelogue is a richly detailed portrait of Turkey, its people, myths, treasures and traditions. (TKY08, $16.99)

Birds Without Wings

by Louis De Bernieres

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 480 PAGES

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, $16.00)

Memed, My Hawk

by Yasar Kemal

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 192 PAGES

From Turkey's master storyteller comes this deceptively simple tale of a rebellious boy in the Taurus mountains of rural Turkey. (TKY57, $15.95)

Pawn in Frankincense

by Dorothy Dunnett

• LITERATURE
• 1997
• PAPER
• 512 PAGES

Set in and around Topkapi Palace during the time of Suleyman the Magnificent, exiled Scottish nobleman Francis Crawford, under the guise of a mission for the Sultan, searches for his son in the Ottoman Empire. The fourth book in Dunnett's rousing Lymond Chronicles. (SCT97, $17.00)

Snow

by Orhan Pamuk | Maureen Freely

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

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, $15.95)

The Bellini Card

by Jason Goodwin

• MYSTERY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

Jason Goodwin (Lords of the Horizon) artfully weaves murder and mystery with historical figures and marvelous setting in this third installment in the Edgar Award-winning series, in which Istanbul's new sultan dispatches Yashim to Venice solve a trail of murders associated with a highly-sought after painting, a portrait of none other than Mehmet the Conqueror by Gentile Bellini. The most prestigious Venetian artist of his day, Bellini (1429-1507) was indeed asked to paint the great Sultan Mehmet II (and the portrait attributed to him is in London's National Gallery). It follows The Jannisary Tree and The Snake Stone, and, both deliciously set amongst the muezzins and minarets of 1830s Istanbul. (TKY191, $15.00)

The Iliad

by Homer | Robert Fagles

• LITERATURE
• 2002
• PAPER
• 704 PAGES

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)

The Janissary Tree

by Jason Goodwin

• MYSTERY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

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)

The Towers of Trebizond

by Rose MacAulay | Jan Morris

• LITERATURE
• 2004
• PAPER
• 277 PAGES

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, $15.95)

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