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Stamboul sketches : encounters in old Istanbul

Freely, John2014
Books, Manuscripts
Throughout the 1960's John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd explored every alley, cove and monument of their adopted home of Istanbul in between their teaching jobs. They created a legendary guidebook, covering 1,500 years of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, to a city that was still innocent of tourists. But the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too melancholically obsessed with lost monuments, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervish, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk healers, mimics and prostitutes were cut from their scholarly guidebook. 'Stamboul Sketches' is a slim book compiled from these editorial floor off-cuts.
Main title:
Stamboul sketches : encounters in old Istanbul / John Freely ; photographs by Sedat Pakay.
Imprint:
London : Eland, 2014.
Collation:
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781780600567 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2203418
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