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An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul
Richard Tillinghast
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Description for An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul
Hardcover. The author is an old Istanbul hand who has seen it change over the years from a provincial backwater to today's vibrant metropolis. With Tillinghast as a guide through Istanbul's cafes, mosques and palaces, and along its streets and waterways, readers will feel at home both in the Constantinople of bygone days and on the streets of the modern town. Num Pages: 368 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 121 x 22. Weight in Grams: 380.
Istanbul, City of Forgetting and Remembering, by Richard Tillinghast, is a travel book in the classic tradition of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Jan Morris. The author is an old Istanbul hand who first visited there fifty years ago and has seen it change over the years from a provincial backwater to today's vibrant metropolis. His introduction to the city's art and architecture, culture, history, literature, and cuisine ranges widely and knowledgeably through the city's Byzantine, Ottoman, and Turkish roots, all of it framed by the author's own voyages of discovery. With Tillinghast as a guide through ... Read more
Istanbul, City of Forgetting and Remembering, by Richard Tillinghast, is a travel book in the classic tradition of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Jan Morris. The author is an old Istanbul hand who first visited there fifty years ago and has seen it change over the years from a provincial backwater to today's vibrant metropolis. His introduction to the city's art and architecture, culture, history, literature, and cuisine ranges widely and knowledgeably through the city's Byzantine, Ottoman, and Turkish roots, all of it framed by the author's own voyages of discovery. With Tillinghast as a guide through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907973215
SKU
V9781907973215
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Ref
99-15
About Richard Tillinghast
In 2008 Richard published Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture, winner of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for Travel Essays. He has received grants from the Irish Arts Council, the British Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, was awarded the Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship from Harvard, the Cleanth Brooks Prize for creative ... Read more
Reviews for An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul
'Richard Tillinghast's Istanbul is a well-wrought and admirably clear guide to the history and present-day reality of the Turkish city.'
Giles Foden
Giles Foden