Encounters in Old Istanbul
Klappentext:Throughout the 1960s, John Rreely explored the alleys, hidden corners and monuments of Istanbul, in between teaching, to create a legendary guidebook with Hilary Sumner-Boyd. But all the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idisyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervishes, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk-healers, mimics and prostitutes, were cut from their scholarly guide.
Stamboul Sketches is fashioned from these off-cuts, a chronicle of chance encounters inspired by Evliya Çelebi, the Pepys of seventeenth-century Istanbul. It is a beautiful, quirky protrait of a city which, Freely says, "grabs you by the heart and never lets you go".
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:John Freely 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 forty books, most of them about Greece and Turkey. He is author of The Cyclades, The Ionian Ilsands and Storm on Horseback (all I.B. Tauris), The Western Shores of Turkey, StrollingThrough Athens, Strolling Through Vernice (all Turis Parke Paperbakcs) as well as Inside the Seraglio., Jem Sultan and the bestselling Strolling Through Istanbul.
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