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Turkey   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $72, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXTKY142)		  
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, $16.95)		   Istanbul, Memories and the City
A Traveller's History of Turkey  •  Richard Stoneman
HISTORY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 247 PAGES
A classicist and popular writer, Stoneman traces the history of Turkey from prehistoric Anatolia through the Hittite Age, Persian Empire, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans and the Ataturk years to the present in this lively compact history. With a chronology, historical gazeteer, maps and list of rulers from the early dynasties to Abdullah Gul, 11th President of the Republic of Turkey. (TKY13, $14.95)		   A Traveller's History of Turkey
Eyewitness Guide Turkey  •  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. With color photographs and maps. (TKY82, $30.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Turkey
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)		   Turkey Map



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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey  •  Mitchell Reddish  •  Clyde Fant   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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  •  Charlotte McPherson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Take along this pocket guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (TKY127, $9.95)
 		  
Fodor's Turkey  •  Caroli Trefler   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide, from the popular series, is saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and restaurants. (TKY160, $23.99)
 		  
Istanbul Eats  •  Yigal Schleifer  •  Ansel Mullins   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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  •  Verity Campbell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With a section of not-to-miss highlights, pull-out map and a calendar of annual events. (TKY151, $12.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook  •  Arzu Kurklu   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  With essential vocabulary for the traveler. (TKY115, $8.99)
 		  
The Western Shores of Turkey, Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts  •  John Freely   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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  •  Ayla Esen Algar   • FOOD  •  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  •  Greg and Lucy Malouf   • FOOD  •  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  •  Roger Crowley   • HISTORY  •  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  •  John Julius Norwich   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Seton Lloyd   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Stephen Kinzer   • HISTORY  •  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  •  John L. Esposito   • RELIGION  •  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  •  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, $24.95)
 		  
The Ottoman Centuries  •  Lord Kinross   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Norman Stone   • HISTORY  •  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  •  Andrew Finkel   • HISTORY  •  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  •  David Talbot Rice   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  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  •  Charles Freeman   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  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  •  Jerome Murphy O'Connor   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  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  •  Jason Goodwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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  •  Franklin D. Lewis   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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  •  Mary Lee Settle   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Settle's travelogue is a richly detailed portrait of Turkey, its people, myths, treasures and traditions. (TKY08, $16.99)
 		  
Birds Without Wings  •  Louis De Bernieres   • LITERATURE  •  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  •  Yasar Kemal   • LITERATURE  •  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  •  Dorothy Dunnett   • LITERATURE  •  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  •  Orhan Pamuk  •  Maureen Freely   • LITERATURE  •  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  •  Jason Goodwin   • MYSTERY  •  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  •  Homer  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  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  •  Jason Goodwin   • MYSTERY  •  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  •  Rose MacAulay  •  Jan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  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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