A traveller's companion to Istanbul
2004
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Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, histories and novels from the 6th-century AD onwards, this anthology recreates the vanished glories of the city, and includes the coronation of a Byzantine emperor, the funeral of a sultan, the death of Atatürk in 1938, the Turkish baths and coffee-houses, and more.
Main title:
A traveller's companion to Istanbul / edited and introduced by Laurence Kelly.
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Edition:
New ed.
Imprint:
London : Robinson, 2004.
Collation:
xxviii, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: published as Istanbul. London: Constable, 1987.Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-384) and index.
ISBN:
9781841199450 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
549312