Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City

Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City

Hilary Sumner-Boyd, Hilary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely, John Freely
$20.00
Publication Date: June 18th, 2019
Publisher:
Tauris Parke
ISBN:
9781838600020
Pages:
512

Description

'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The Times

Practical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best.

This is the 2009 revised and updated edition of the classic guide to Istanbul, originally published thirty-seven years previously, which continues to inform and enchant visitors.

Taking the reader on foot through this captivating city - European City of Culture 2010 - the authors describe the historic monuments and sites of what was once Constantinople and the capital in turn of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, in the context of the great living city.

Woven throughout are vivid anecdotes, secret histories, hidden gems and every major place of interest the traveller will want to see.

About the Author

Hilary Sumner-Boyd was professor of humanities at Robert College, Bosphorus University.

John Freely (1926-2017) was born in New York and joined the US Navy at the age of seventeen, serving with a commando unit in Burma and China during the last years of World War II. He has lived in New York, Boston, London, Athens and Istanbul and has written over thirty travel books and guides, most of them about Greece and Turkey.

Praise for Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City

“The best travel guide to Istanbul” —The Times

“A guide book that reads like a novel” —The New York Times