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These 5 items are available for $95, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXTKY114)

Eyewitness Guide Turkey  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  FLEXI-BOUND  • 432 PAGES Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of Turkey, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. (TKY82, $25.00)
Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History  •  Seton Lloyd HISTORY •  1999 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES Written by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara, this book is an indispensable guide to Turkey's ancient civilizations and monuments. It's a lively tale of cultures and conquest, from the Hittites to St. Paul, that illuminates the living past of Turkey's archaeological treasures. With maps, drawings, site plans and a section of color photographs. (TKY43, $25.95)
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)
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)
Turkey Map  •  Freytag & Berndt MAP A double-sided, shaded relief map of all of Turkey, including the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts, at a scale of 1:800,000. Fully indexed. (TKY29, $12.95)

Istanbul Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A laminated, folded map of Istanbul at a scale of 1:11,000. (TKY65, $8.95)
Turkish Coast Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A nicely detailed laminated map of Western Turkey and the coast from Istanbul to Antalya at a scale of 1:800,000. (TKY103, $10.95)
Eyewitness Guide Istanbul  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook  •  Arzu Kurklu   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and 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, $22.50)
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 History of Turkey  •  Richard Stoneman   • HISTORY  •  A well-written, accessible overview of Turkish history from the Paleolithic to the present. It includes a chronology of major events, a list of native rulers, further recommended reading, and a gazetteer. (TKY13, $14.95)
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)
Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome  •  Christopher Scarre   • HISTORY  •  A vivid overview of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and its expansion throughout North Africa and the Mediterranean. Illustrated with ingenious color maps on many topics (political borders, trade, defense, religion) and 80 color photographs. (ITL29, $16.95)
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, $18.95)
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)
Early Christian and Byzantine Art  •  John Lowden   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An illustrated guide to the architectural heritage of the early Christian period (860-1453), with a survey of the philosophy and intellectual climate of the time. (EUR23, $24.95)
Alexander the Great  •  Robin Lane Fox   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A popular biography of Alexander the Great, noteworthy for its scholarship, great descriptions and psychological insight. (GRE17, $16.00)
Alexander's Path  •  Freya Stark   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Stark retraces the route of Alexander the Great along the shores of Turkey, passing through Xanthus, Miletus and Myra. An excellent companion for a trip between Kusadasi and Antalya. (TKY32, $15.95)
In the Steps of St. Paul  •  H.V. Morton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Playing both pilgrim and traveler in this book, Morton charmingly mixes history with offhand humor, anecdote and keen observation. Bible in hand, he journeys through Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Macedonia, Greece and Rhodes, ending fittingly at the Tomb of St. Paul. (MED70, $22.00)
Istanbul, Memories and the City  •  Orhan Pamuk   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nobel Prize-winner Pamuk writes with quiet grace of the city of his birth, celebrated in his many novels, a magic place of crumbling wooden mansions and Ottoman riches, mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences. (TKY99, $15.95)
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, $16.95)
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)
Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place  •  Mary Lee Settle   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Settle's exemplary travelogue is a richly detailed, captivating portrait of Turkey, its people, myths, treasures and traditions. (TKY08, $14.00)
Travelers' Tales Turkey  •  James Villers   • ANTHOLOGY  •  An engaging, insightful and entertaining selection of eyewitness accounts of Turkey, organized thematically. (TKY71, $18.95)
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, $16.00) (GRE173, $17.00)
The Towers of Trebizond  •  Rose MacAulay  •  Jan Morris   • LITERATURE  •  This impossibly witty account of an eccentric party of Brits who set off for Turkey to establish a mission was first published in 1956. Known for her sparkling humor, Macaulay has written a minor masterpiece (TKY15, $14.95)