Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City

Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City
John Freely, Hilary Sumner-Boyd
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 512pg
18 Apr 2019 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781838600020
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This classic guide to Istanbul by Hilary Summer-Boyd and John Freely - the 'best travel guide to Istanbul' ('The Times'), 'a guide book that reads like a novel' ('New York Times') - is here, for the first time since its original publication thirty-seven years ago, published in a completely revised and updated new edition. Taking the reader on foot through this captivating city the authors describe the historic monuments and sites of what was once Constantinople and the capital in turn of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, in the context of the great living city.
Praise for "Strolling Through Istanbul: """ *A classic. The best travel guide to Istanbul.* --"The Times" "A guide book that reads like a novel" "-" William Buckley, " The New York Times" *It is a guide-book that reads more like a literary tale and should do well with its subject city decreed European Capital of Culture this year.* --"The Bookseller"*Both engaging and scholarly, this is a guide to Istanbul that has yet to be surpassed.* --"Daily Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk"
The late Hilary Summer-Boyd was professor of humanities at Robert-College-Bosphorus University. His magisterial work, The Seven Hills of Constantinople: A Study of the Byzantine and Turkish Monuments of the City, was unpublished at the time of his death in 1977 and is now being prepared for publication by Bosphorus University Press. John Freely was born in New York and joined the US Navy at the age of seventeen for the last two years of World War II. He has lived in New York, Boston, London, Athens and Istanbul and has written over forty travel books and guides, most of them about Greece and Turkey. He is author of The Grand Turk, Storm on Horseback, The Cyclades, The lonian Islands (all I.B.Tauris), Crete, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Athens and Strolling through Venice (all Tauris Parke Paperbacks). He is currently professor of physics at Bosphorus University in Istanbul.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781838600020
Published: 18 Apr 2019
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 512

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