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Istanbul: A Traveller´s Reader
Laurence Kelly
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Description for Istanbul: A Traveller´s Reader
Paperback. An indispensable literary companion, vividly evoking the life of Istanbul, that exotic city where East meets West, in the voices of both residents and visitors through the centuries Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 x 8pp plate sections. BIC Classification: 1DVT; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 210 x 29. Weight in Grams: 364.
Istanbul, A Traveller's Reader is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by Constantine the Great, Istanbul became a city of fabled riches; after falling to the Turks in 1453, its glories continued, maintained by the strength and wealth of the Ottomans. Drawing on diaries, letters, biographies, travelogues and poems from the sixth century AD onwards, this evocative anthology recreates for contemporary visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople. It provides vivid eyewitness accounts of the coronation ... Read more
Istanbul, A Traveller's Reader is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by Constantine the Great, Istanbul became a city of fabled riches; after falling to the Turks in 1453, its glories continued, maintained by the strength and wealth of the Ottomans. Drawing on diaries, letters, biographies, travelogues and poems from the sixth century AD onwards, this evocative anthology recreates for contemporary visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople. It provides vivid eyewitness accounts of the coronation ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472137166
SKU
KSG0016283
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Ref
99-1
About Laurence Kelly
Laurence Kelly is the editor of the Traveller's Reader series. Born in Brussels and educated at New College, Oxford, where he read history, he joined the Life Guards in 1950 and served in the Foreign Office. His interest in all things Turkish began in 1946 when he first visited Ankara and Istanbul whilst his father was in Turkey as British ... Read more
Reviews for Istanbul: A Traveller´s Reader
Vividly tells the story of that exotic city. - Spectator Provides as rich and satisfying a patchwork as the metropolis it describes. - Times Beguiling . . . should prove indispensable in the field. - Times Literary Supplement