Istanbul
a traveller's reader
$27.55
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
8 August 2016
Summary
Istanbul: A Traveller’s Reader
A 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472137166 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472137167 |
| Author: | Laurence Kelly |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 126mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Vividly tells the story of that exotic city. - Spectator
Provides as rich and satisfying a patchwork as the metropolis it describes. - TimesBeguiling … should prove indispensable in the field. - Times Literary SupplementAbout The Author
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 Ambassador.
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