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These 5 items are available for $82, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXTKY95)

Eyewitness Guide Istanbul  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  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, $23.00)
Istanbul, Memories and the City  •  Orhan Pamuk BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2006 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES In this dazzling if somber elegy, Orhan Pamuk writes with quiet grace of the city celebrated in his many novels, a city of crumbling wooden mansions and Ottoman riches, a city of Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences. With a selection of excellent photographs by Ara Guler. (TKY99, $15.95)
Harem, The World Behind the Veil  •  Alev Lytle Croutier CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1991 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES A fascinating, illustrated look at the culture of the Harem -- particularly the well known quarters at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The author, who was born in the old house of what once was the harem of a pasha, combines interviews, history and a wonderful selection of art in this intriguing book. (ARB23, $25.00)
1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West  •  Roger Crowley HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES Crowley recounts the dramatic events leading up and surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 in this nicely paced history. He (like many before him) writes not only of Europe's loss of the Eastern Roman capital but also of the polyglot, tolerant Ottoman city which took its place. (TKY114, $14.95)
Istanbul Map  •  Borch Maps MAP A laminated, folded map of Istanbul at a scale of 1:11,000. (TKY65, $8.95)

Fodor's Istanbul's 25 Best  •  Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim guide with a pullout map covers what to see, where to go and what to do with style. (TKY185, $11.95)
Istanbul: A Traveller's Guide  •  Jane Streetly  •  Sue Rollin   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This compact, on-the-ground guide to exploring Istanbul includes an overview of the city's history and highlights, and a variety of walking tours. With numerous maps and color photos. (TKY183, $16.95)
Lonely Planet Istanbul Encounter  •  Verity Campbell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This lively pocket guide is jammed with recommendations, photographs and a pull-out map. (TKY151, $11.99)
Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook  •  Arzu Kurklu   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  With essential vocabulary for the traveler. (TKY115, $8.99)
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 Companion to Istanbul  •  Laurence Kelly   • HISTORY  •  An illuminating selection by writers, foreign and Turkish, on Istanbul over the ages. (TKY122, $16.95)
Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History  •  Seton Lloyd   • HISTORY  •  Turkey's archaeology and early history for the traveler by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara. (TKY43, $25.95)
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)
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)
Istanbul, the Imperial City  •  John Freely   • HISTORY  •  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)
The Emergence of Modern Turkey  •  Bernard Lewis   • HISTORY  •  The classic history of Turkey from the decline of the Ottoman Empire to 1950 with a focus on the Ataturk revolution (TKY56, $39.95)
The Walls of Constantinople AD 324-1453  •  Stephen Turnbull   • HISTORY  •  Turnbull charts the history, purpose and technical challenges of Istanbul's famous walls in this handy, illustrated guide. (TKY147, $18.95)
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)
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)
The Black Book  •  Orhan Pamuk  •  Maureen Freely   • MYSTERY  •  This atmospheric, erudite and fast-paced mystery, in an excellent new translation by Maureen Freely, unfolds in the confusion of Istanbul in the early 1980s. (TKY01, $14.95)
The Rage of the Vulture  •  Barry Unsworth   • LITERATURE  •  An atmospheric novel by the Booker Prize-winning author set in Constantinople during the last gasp of the Ottoman Empire. (TKY119, $14.95)