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Istanbul - A Tale of Three Cities (Paperback)
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Istanbul - A Tale of Three Cities (Paperback)
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List price R473
Loot Price R392
Discovery Miles 3 920
You Save R81 (17%)
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Life-filled and life-affirming
history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN
'Richly entertaining and impeccably researched' Peter Frankopan
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories
collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical
fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names -
Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a
place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. Standing
as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the
capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires. For
much of its history it was known simply as The City, but, as
Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a story.
In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling
historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the
world's greatest cities. As the longest-lived political entity in
Europe, over the last 6,000 years Istanbul has absorbed a mosaic of
micro-cities and cultures all gathering around the core. At the
latest count archaeologists have measured forty-two human
habitation layers. Phoenicians, Genoese, Venetians, Jews, Vikings,
Azeris all called a patch of this earth their home. Based on
meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this
captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral,
immediate and scholarly narrative history at its finest.
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