An Istanbul anthology
travel writing through the ages
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Word Count
36,750 words, Guess
Page Count
147 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveistanbulantholog0000unse
- ISBN-10977416721X
- ISBN-139789774167218
- Library of Congress Control Number2015509602
- OCLC Control Number907206417
and 2 more
- Better World Books9789774167218
- Open LibraryOL28277364M
Classifications
- DDC949.61/8
- LCCDR720 .I86 2015
- LCCDR728
Description
For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The city's maze-like streets and high balconies, its steep alleys, flower gardens, and forested hillsides remain soaked in the vestiges of that imperial past, and it is to that past and to Istanbul's unearthly moods and waters that so many writers and diarists journeyed in search of escape, knowledge, happiness, or sheer wonderment. An Istanbul Anthology takes us on a nostalgic journey through the city with travelers' accounts of the sights, smells, and sounds of Istanbul's bazaars and coffeehouses, its grand palaces and gardens, crumbling buildings, and ancient churches and mosques, and the waters that so haunt and define it. With writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Pierre Loti, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, and André Gide, we discover and rediscover the many delights of this great city of antiquity, meeting point of East and West, and gateway to peoples and civilizations.
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