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Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul
John Freely
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Description for Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul
Paperback. Freely reveals a superb eye for the telling details. - The Independent Num Pages: 34 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJPK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Throughout the 1960's John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd explored every alley, cove and monument of their adopted home of Istanbul in between their teaching jobs. They created a legendary guidebook, covering 1,500 years of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, to a city that was still innocent of tourists. But the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too melancholically obsessed with lost monuments, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervish, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk healers, mimics and prostitutes were cut from their scholarly ... Read more
Throughout the 1960's John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd explored every alley, cove and monument of their adopted home of Istanbul in between their teaching jobs. They created a legendary guidebook, covering 1,500 years of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, to a city that was still innocent of tourists. But the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too melancholically obsessed with lost monuments, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervish, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk healers, mimics and prostitutes were cut from their scholarly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780600567
SKU
V9781780600567
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99-99
About John Freely
John Freely was born into a dissident, hard-drinking Irish-American family in 1927. He dropped out of school aged 17 and joined the US Navy, serving as a marine in the last years of the Second World War and as a G.I. student discovered as genius for Physics. His postgraduate studies took him to All Souls, Oxford before taking up a ... Read more
Reviews for Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul
Written when Orhan Pamuk was just a pup and when John Freely was in his prime. Freely had explored every inch of the city for Strolling Through Istanbul but that was a book about the history behind the facades - this is a picture of the city that he loved. - Andrew Finkel