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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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Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in this well-paced history.
(TKY114, $14.99)
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Ancient Greece: The Famous Monuments
• G. Behor
• ARCHAEOLOGY
• FAVORITE
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A great book relating ancient Greek ruins to the highly-decorated civic and religious buildings they once were via ingenious overlaid acetate illustrations.
(GRE172, $32.95)
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Art of the Byzantine Era
• David Talbot Rice
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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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)
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Crescent and Star, Turkey Between Two Worlds
• Stephen Kinzer
• HISTORY
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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)
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Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire
• Bernard Lewis
• HISTORY
• FAVORITE
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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)
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Lords of the Horizons
• Jason Goodwin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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The Odyssey
• Homer
• Robert Fagles
• LITERATURE
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Translator Robert Fagles captures the poetry and power of The Odyssey in this translation, celebrated for its clarity and expressiveness.
(GRE45, $17.00)
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The Songs of the Kings
• Barry Unsworth
• LITERATURE
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Unsworth's sly novel, set in 1260 B.C. as scheming Odysseus prepares to plunder Troy. A familiar story enhanced by Ulsworth's mix of classic cadence, contemporary language, ripe humor and pulled-from-the-headlines satire.
(GRE185, $13.95)
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The Towers of Trebizond
• Rose MacAulay
• Jan Morris
• LITERATURE
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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, $14.95)
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Travelers' Tales Turkey
• James Villers
• ANTHOLOGY
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An engaging, insightful and entertaining selection of eyewitness accounts of Turkey, organized thematically.
(TKY71, $18.95)
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Turkey Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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This shaded relief map includes a detailed map of Western Turkey (1:800,000) on the reverse.
(TKY29, $14.95)
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