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The Abyssinian Proof  •  Jenny White
LITERATURE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES
In this sequel to The Sultan's Seal (TKY137), magistrate Kamil Pasha confronts smugglers and religious conflicts in Ottoman Istanbul. (TKY155, $13.95)
  The Abyssinian Proof
Across the Hellespont, A Literary Guide to Turkey  •  Richard Stoneman
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2011 •  PAPER  • 248 PAGES
A classicist by trade Stoneman (A Traveller's History of Turkey, A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece) introduces the history and monuments of Turkey through diverse writers. (TKY232, $18.00)
  Across the Hellespont, A Literary Guide to Turkey
Alexander the Great  •  Robin Lane Fox
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2004 •  PAPER  • 568 PAGES
A popular biography of Alexander the Great, noteworthy for its scholarship, great descriptions and psychological insight. This enormously readable book succeeds in bringing the man and his era to life. (GRE17, $17.00)
  Alexander the Great
Ancient Cities  •  Charles Gates
ARCHAEOLOGY •  2011 •  PAPER  • 474 PAGES
Now in a second edition, this broad scholarly survey of the "archaeology of urban life" covers the urban centers of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and the Greek and Roman worlds. Gates lives in Ankara so the book, though wide in scope, has a particularly Turkish flavor. Includes hundreds of line drawings, maps and photographs. (MED187, $46.95)
 
Arabesque, A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon  •  Claudia Roden
FOOD •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 352 PAGES
Roden leavens 150 well-chosen, classic recipes of North Africa and the Middle East with scraps of history, culture and tales. With 93 color photographs. (MED99, $37.50)
  Arabesque, A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
Ataturk, The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey  •  Andrew Mango
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2003 •  PAPER  • 666 PAGES
Mango (who was born in Istanbul and has written extensively on modern Turkey) 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. He shows Ataturk's influence on the role of Islam in the modern nation. (TKY52, $24.95)
  Ataturk, The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
Beneath the Seven Seas, Adventures With The Institute of Nautical Archaeology  •  Geo Bass
ARCHAEOLOGY •  2005 •  HARD COVER  • 256 PAGES
This collection of first-hand accounts by underwater archaeologists includes 350 color illustrations and is a nice companion for visits to the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Turkey. (TKY238, $39.95)
 
Bradt Guide Eastern Turkey  •  Diana Darke
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 392 PAGES
This convenient guide in the venerated series is a personal, detailed overview of Eastern Turkey, its history, culture and natural history. With photographs, maps and excellent travel information including sections on Mount Ararat and Cappadocia's eerie underground cities. (TKY248, $26.99)
  Bradt Guide Eastern Turkey
Byzantine Art and Architecture, An Introduction  •  Lyn Rodley
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 394 PAGES
A compendium of articles and essays about Byzantine art, many first published in scholarly international journals. (MDE63, $63.00)
  Byzantine Art and Architecture, An Introduction
The Byzantines  •  Averil Cameron
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2009 •  PAPER  • 275 PAGES
Number 13 in the scholarly, engaging Peoples of Europe series, this compact survey by the British professor of Late Antiquities focuses on the Byzantine people, their identity, religion, ethnicity and culture in the context of European traditions. (TKY197, $26.95)
  The Byzantines
Byzantium, From Antiquity to the Renaissance  •  Thomas F. Mathews
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 176 PAGES
This definitive introduction to Byzantine art, which includes over 100 color plates, puts the empire's artistic development into historical context, showing how it provided an essential bridge between classical and renaissance Europe. (TKY235, $20.00)
 
Cadogan Guides Turkey  •  Dana Facaros
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 544 PAGES
A guide in the respected series with insightful cultural and historical background, and up-to-date practical information, illustrations and maps. (TKY195, $22.95)
  Cadogan Guides Turkey
The Crimean War, A History  •  Orlando Figes
HISTORY •  2011 •  HARD COVER  • 592 PAGES
Figes weaves various untapped accounts -- including a young Tolstoy -- to tell a comprehensive and thrilling history of the world's first industrialized war. Fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence between the British, the Ottoman and the Russian empires, the war resulted in the deaths of almost a million soldiers and seeded familiar fault lines between Russia and the West that have persisted and shaped international politics nearly one hundred and sixty years later. (RUS459, $35.00)
  The Crimean War, A History
Culture Shock! Turkey, A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette  •  Arin Bayraktaroglu
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 198 PAGES
A lively introduction to the culture and manners of Turkey, with a focus on customs and etiquette. (TKY242, $15.95)
 
Dervishes  •  Beth Helms
LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 311 PAGES
Largely about a woman's world with absent husbands, this novel follows 12-year-old Canada and her mother Grace, American expatriates in Ankara, and their friends. The characters are intricate and captivating, and the ultimate tragedy deeply felt. (TKY175, $14.00)
  Dervishes
Essential Rumi  •  Jelalludin Rumi  •  Coleman Barks
RELIGION •  1997 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
A collection of poetry by the 13th-century Sufi mystic and founder of the Whirling Dervishes Mevlana Jelalludin Rumi. Coleman renders a well-chosen selection of Persian estatic poetry into contemporary English. A student of Sufism since 1977, Barks is a poet and the author of numerous Rumi translations. (TKY95, $15.99)
  Essential Rumi
Eyewitness Guide Istanbul  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  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, $25.00)
  Eyewitness Guide Istanbul
A Fez of the Heart, Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat  •  Jeremy Seal
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1996 •  PAPER  • 337 PAGES
This engaging author didn't really focus his Turkish travels entirely on a felt hat! It's an excuse to comment on modern Turkey and the dramatic changes since the rise of Kemil Ataturk (who banned the Fez in 1925). The book deftly combines reporting, history, politics and the old-fashioned travelogue. (TKY16, $20.95)
  A Fez of the Heart, Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
Frommer's Istanbul  •  Lynn A. Levine
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER
A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout. (TKY205, $19.99)
 
Frommer's Turkey  •  Lynn Levine
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 435 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical guide to Turkey from the popular series. Offers a language and etiquette primer, logistical advice, color photographs and detailed maps. (TKY140, $23.99)
  Frommer's Turkey
Frommer's Turkey  •  Lynn Levine
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 435 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical guide to Turkey from the popular series. Offers a language and etiquette primer, logistical advice, color photographs and detailed maps. (TKY140, $23.99)
  Frommer's Turkey
Gallipoli  •  Alan Moorehead
HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 380 PAGES
A wonderfully readable and classic account of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in Turkey, orginally published in 1956. (WAR85, $14.99)
  Gallipoli
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire  •  Edward N. Luttwak
HISTORY •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 498 PAGES
Luttwak examines how the Byzantine Empire greatly outlasted the Roman Empire by adapting to changing circumstances, devising new ways of coping with enemies and relying more on persuasion than military strength. This interpretive account of Byzantine strategy, intelligence and diplomacy will appeal to scholars, classicists, military history buffs and soldiers. (TKY218, $35.00)
 
The Grand Turk, Sultan Mehmet II  •  John Freely
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2010 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES
Freely's lively biography, subtitled Conqueror of Constantinople, Master of an Empire and Lord of Two Seas, captures the spirit of the times. (TKY198, $16.95)
  The Grand Turk, Sultan Mehmet II
Helen of Troy  •  Margaret George
LITERATURE •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 624 PAGES
An engrossing and lucid historical novel about the legendary beauty and the war she launched from the best-selling author (Mary, Called Magdalene). Superb historical research and a thrilling ploy combine in this impelling novel. (GRE295, $27.95)
 
Hittite Warrior  •  Trevor Bryce
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 64 PAGES
A slim illustrated guide by a leading authority. (WAR145, $18.95)
 
In Search of the Trojan War  •  Michael Wood
ARCHAEOLOGY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES
This handsomely illustrated book examines the archaeology, history and legends of Troy -- a vivid analysis of the ancient world by the peripatetic anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Michael Wood. With the remarkable Heinrich Schliemann (who discovered Troy in 1873) as his point of departure, Wood takes the reader along on a remarkable story of archaeological adventure. (GRE52, $29.95)
  In Search of the Trojan War
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great  •  Michael Wood
HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
Historian Michael Wood recreates the epic journey of Alexander the Great across Asia in this companion volume to the documentary television series. With a good selection of maps, photographs and illustrations of Hellenic art and artifacts from the region. (MED23, $26.95)
  In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
In the Steps of St. Paul  •  H.V. Morton
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  PAPER  • 528 PAGES
Travels throughout the Mediterranean in search of St. Paul, bible in hand. A pilgrim as much as a traveler, Morton journeys through Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Macedonia, Greece and Rhodes in this classic account. Fittingly, his appreciative journey ends at the Tomb of St. Paul. As in all his many travel books, Morton charmingly mixing history with offhand humor, anecdote and keen observation. (MED70, $22.00)
  In the Steps of St. Paul
Insight Guide Turkey  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES
An outstanding overview of the country from the reliable Insight crew, featuring hundreds of photographs and observant essays on history, culture and nature. With separate chapters on Istanbul, Ephesus, the Aegean Coast, Lycia, and Cappadocia. (TKY38, $24.99)
  Insight Guide Turkey
Ionia, A Quest  •  Freya Stark
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES
With Herodotus as her travelling companion, Stark travels from Smyrna through the ancient cities of Asia Minor in the footspes of Odysseus and Alexander the Great in this classic account. She writes: "In the autumn of 1952 I travelled about the western coasts of Asia Minor, and counted, at the end, fifty five ruined sites that I had visited: in only one of them - and that was Pergamum - had I met another tourist, sightseeing like myself...." (TKY224, $17.00)
  Ionia, A Quest
Istanbul Map  •  Borch Maps
2011 •  MAP
A laminated folded map at a scale of 1:11,000. Two Sides. 19.5x26 inches. (TKY65, $8.95)
  Istanbul Map
Istanbul, City of a Hundred Names  •  Alex Webb  •  Orhan Pamuk
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 136 PAGES
Webb illuminates the neighborhoods, diversity and confluence of cultures in contemporary Istanbul in this collection of 77 full-color photographs. (TKY148, $50.00)
  Istanbul, City of a Hundred Names
Istanbul, the Imperial City  •  John Freely
HISTORY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES
A lively, anecdotal history of the city geared for the traveler. With historic and modern photographs and neighborhood maps. Freely concludes with a helpful, 60-page section on monuments and museums. (TKY23, $17.00)
  Istanbul, the Imperial City
Istanbul: A Traveller's Guide  •  Jane Streetly  •  Sue Rollin
GUIDEBOOK •  2005 •  PAPER  • 262 PAGES
This compact, on-the-ground guide to exploring Istanbul includes an overview of the city's history and highlights, and a variety of thoughtful, well-planned and enticing walking tours. With numerous maps and color photos. (TKY183, $16.95)
  Istanbul: A Traveller's Guide
Lonely Planet Istanbul  •  Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
A comprehensive city guide with good full-color maps, a few photographs and excellent information on what to do and where to go. (TKY208, $19.99)
 
Lonely Planet Turkey  •  Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 732 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical travel guide to Turkey in the hallmark Lonely Planet Style. It's the most oft-sighted guidebook in the hands of independent travelers to Turkey, jammed with detail on where to go, what to do and where to stay, eat and explore. With a section of color photographs, maps and a good overview of culture and history. (TKY50, $25.99)
  Lonely Planet Turkey
The Making of Modern Turkey  •  Feroz Ahmad
HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 252 PAGES
A study of the politics, economy, military developments and society of Turkey, from 1908 through the 1990s. A volume in the textbook series "The Making of the Modern Middle East." Ahmad was a student of the Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis (The Emergence of Modern Turkey). (TKY123, $59.95)
 
A Modern History of the Kurds  •  David McDowell
HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 515 PAGES
A scholarly, comprehensive history of the Kurdish people, who spill over the borders of modern Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. In this third edition, McDowell considers the economic, political, religious and tribal struggles among this ancient people -- excellent background to understanding the "Kurdish Question." (TKY59, $33.00)
  A Modern History of the Kurds
The Museum of Innocence  •  Orhan Pamuk
LITERATURE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 560 PAGES
In his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize, Pamuk plumbs the depths of romantic attachment while exploring the tension between modernity and tradition in 1970s and 80s Istanbul. (TKY207, $15.95)
  The Museum of Innocence
The Odyssey  •  Homer  •  Robert Fagles
LITERATURE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 541 PAGES
Translator Robert Fagles captures the poetry and power of The Odyssey in this translation, celebrated for its clarity and expressiveness. (GRE45, $17.00)
  The Odyssey
On Foot to the Golden Horn  •  Jason Goodwin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 278 PAGES
An outstanding travel writer and journalist, Goodwin interweaves history, incident and reflection in this excellent portrait of Central Europe. With chapters on Cracow, Slovakia, Budapest, Transylvania, Brasov and Bulgaria. (EUR81, $17.00)
  On Foot to the Golden Horn
Ottoman Architecture  •  Dogan Kuban
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2009 •  HARD COVER  • 720 PAGES
An architect and history, Kuban traces the arc of the Ottoman empire through its architecture in this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey. The opus-magnum of a long career. (MED151, $115.00)
 
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650, The Structure of Power  •  Colin Imber
HISTORY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 428 PAGES
A revised and expanded second edition of a highly-praised account of the structure of the government of the Ottoman Empire to the mid-seventeenth century. Colin Imber, a professor in Turkish at the University of Manchester, incorporates the latest research and a wealth of multi-lingual sources, many of which have never been previously translated into English. (TKY223, $29.00)
 
The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine History  •  John Haldon
HISTORY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 187 PAGES
Princeton historian Haldon charts the political, social and economic history of the medieval empire in this succint resource with over 100 maps. (TKY237, $30.00)
  The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine History
The Persian Boy  •  Mary Renault
LITERATURE •  1988 •  PAPER  • 419 PAGES • YOUNG ADULTS
The second of Renault's trilogy on the life and loves of Alexander the Great, this exhaustively researched historical novel focuses on Bagoas, the Persian slave boy who became the servant and lover of the king. Not just a love story, it includes the great battles and personalities of Classical Greece. (GRE74, $15.95)
  The Persian Boy
Places in Turkey, A Pocket Grand Tour  •  Francis Russell
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 335 PAGES
With a focus on art, architecture and antiquities, Russell highlights 83 places to visit across Turkey, describing each with insight and admirable brevity. (TKY253, $24.95)
  Places in Turkey, A Pocket Grand Tour
Portrait of a Turkish Family  •  Irfan Orga
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2003 •  PAPER  • 332 PAGES
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. It is also a poignant account of struggling to get along under very difficult circumstances. Born into a privileged family, Orga's fate changed radically with the defeat of the Ottomans and the changes brought about by Atatürk and the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923. With chapters entitled Introducing the Family, Disillusionment of an Autocrat, and The End of The Story. Orga's son supplies an illuminating forward for this edition, filling in biographical details. (TKY83, $32.95)
  Portrait of a Turkish Family
Race of Scorpions  •  Dorothy Dunnett
LITERATURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 534 PAGES
An absorbing tale of political intrigue set in the 15th-century Ottoman empire and throughout the Mediterranean. It's volume three of Dunnett's masterful "House of Niccolo" series, the story of Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, a young dyer's apprentice who gets caught up in the rivalry for the throne of Cyprus. The characters may be fictitious but the historical footing is solid and the setting credible. (MED33, $16.95)
  Race of Scorpions
The Rage of the Vulture  •  Barry Unsworth
LITERATURE •  1995 •  PAPER  • 443 PAGES
An atmospheric novel set in Constantinople during the last gasp of the Ottoman Empire by the Booker-Prize winner author (who once taught English in Istanbul). The protagonist is a British foreign service officer with a secret. (TKY119, $14.95)
  The Rage of the Vulture
Rough Guide Turkey  •  Rosie Ayliffe  •  Mark Dubin  •  John Gawthrop
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 784 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the history culture and attractions of Trurkey for the visitor. (TKY48, $24.99)
  Rough Guide Turkey
Rumi: The Book of Love  •  Jelalludin Rumi  •  Coleman Barks
LITERATURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 206 PAGES
The 13th Century Sufi mystic Rumi is best known for his poems celebrating the joy and mystery of love in all its forms -- erotic, divine and friendly. Barks has collected and translated the best of these poems. (TKY222, $13.99)
 
Sailing From Byzantium, How A Lost Empire Shaped The World  •  Colin Wells
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES
A history of the Byzantine empire and its cultural, artistic, religious, philosophical, and scientifc legacy. (TKY130, $17.00)
  Sailing From Byzantium, How A Lost Empire Shaped The World
The Secret History  •  G. A. Williamson  •  Procopius
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES
A classic and compulsively readable account of the mores and manners of elite society at the court of Emperor Justinian. This is historical mudslinging only a Byzantine could devise, a withering expose of the scandals, intrigues and infidelities of the splendid empire and its rulers by none other than its official historian. Here, Justinian is a demon king capable of any evil deeds, while his wife, Empress Theodora, is a bloodthirsty monster of depravity and cruelty, and the celebrated general Belisarius is the foolish dupe of his scheming wife, Antonina. Magnificently vitriolic and startlingly original, The Secret History is a work of explosive energy, depicting holy Byzantium as a hell of murder and misrule. (TKY11, $15.00)
  The Secret History
The Snake Stone  •  Jason Goodwin
LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES
The second of Goodwin's richly detailed Ottoman Empire mysteries puts eunuch detective Yashim on the trail of a murderer and missing Greek artifacts in 19-century Istanbul. (TKY156, $14.00)
  The Snake Stone
The Sultan's Kitchen, A Turkish Cookbook  •  Ozcan Ozan
FOOD •  2001 •  PAPER
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)
 
The Sultan's Seal  •  Jenny White
MYSTERY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES
An atmospheric novel of murder, set in the nineteenth-century late Ottoman Istanbul. (TKY137, $14.95)
  The Sultan's Seal
Tastes of Byzantium, The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire  •  Andrew Dalby
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES
Fusing the spices of the Romans with the seafood and simple food of the Aegean and Greek world, Byzantine cuisine was a precursor to much of the food of modern Turkey and Greece. Dalby brings this vanished cuisine to life in vivid and sensual detail, painting a picture of the recipes, customs and customs of an empire. (TKY236, $25.00)
  Tastes of Byzantium, The Cuisine of a Legendary Empire
The Trojan War  •  Carol G. Thomas
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 209 PAGES
Provides readers and researchers with an engaging mixture of descriptive chapters, biographical sketches, and annotated primary documents. (TKY180, $19.95)
 
The Trojan War: A New History  •  Barry Strauss
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES
If the question about the Trojan War is, "What's love got to do with it?" the answer is probably, "Nothing." So argues talented historian and classic professor Straus, who combines information gleaned from Homer's epics with archaeology and ancient texts to weave a lively, readable account of the true motivatations and politics behind this legendary conflict. (GRE296, $15.99)
  The Trojan War: A New History
The Trojans and Their Neighbours  •  Trevor Bryce
HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 225 PAGES
Bryce, an expert in classical and near-Eastern history, surveys the entire history of Troy, from its beginnings c. 3000 BCE until its decline in the Byzantine era. Intense and encompassing, those wanting a profound understanding of this ancient city and its relationships with its neighbors will appreciate Bryce's breadth and depth.. (TKY214, $36.95)
 
Turkey Decoded  •  Ann Dismorr
HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 237 PAGES
Sweden's ambassador to Turkey from 2001 to 2005, Dismorr focuses on Turkey as a European nation -- and obstacles to membership in the European Union -- in this timely overview of the country. (TKY247, $19.95)
 
Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey  •  Hugh Pope
HISTORY •  2011 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES
The authors, who speak fluent Turkish and have reported from Turkey for 20 years, provide a rich mosaic of contemporary Turkey and its formative past. The strengths and weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian tragedy, the Kurdish struggle, the controversial legacy of the brilliant but autocratic founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, are all here. They also provide portraits of new leaders who have broken taboos and ushered in new freedoms at a time when other forces attempt to pull Turkey back into the Middle Eastern vortex. (TKY33, $22.95)
  Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey
Turkey, A Modern History  •  Erik Zurcher
HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 245 PAGES
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. It's the best single guide to the complex history of modern Turkey, well written and opinionated. Revised. (TKY10, $33.00)
  Turkey, A Modern History
The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554-1562  •  Edward Forster
HISTORY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 265 PAGES
Botanist, linguist, antiquarian, scholar and zoologist under under Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (he brought back lilac and the tulip), Busbecq's detailed impressions show the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power. (TKY170, $19.95)
 
Turkish Riviera Map  •  Freytag & Berndt
2008 •  MAP
A colorful road map of the southern coast of Turkey at a scale of 1:150,000 with insets of Antalya, Side, Alanya, Perge and Termessos. One Side. 34x45 inches. (TKY204, $14.95)
 
Turkish Traditional Art Today  •  Henry Glassie
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1993 •  HARD COVER  • 947 PAGES
A scholarly, well illustrated survey of the artisans, rugmakers, potters and craftsmen, and the diversity of arts and crafts. With photographs by the author, this huge book documents the diversity of wares throughout Turkey. (TKY60, $89.95)
 
Turkish, A Rough Guide Phrasebook  •  Rough Guide
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
An A-Z pocket dictionary, phrasebook and mini-guide to the Turkish language. (TKY61, $6.99)
  Turkish, A Rough Guide Phrasebook
The Turks Today  •  Andrew Mango
HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 292 PAGES
A concise history of Turkey since the death of Ataturk in 1938. In part II, Mango (the author of a biography of Ataturk) considers modern Turkey, its society, economy, politics and prospects. (TKY90, $17.95)
  The Turks Today

 
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