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An Istanbul Anthology - Travel Writing Through the Centuries (Hardcover)
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An Istanbul Anthology - Travel Writing Through the Centuries (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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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 Andre 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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