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An armchair traveller's history of Istanbul : city of forgetting and remembering

Tillinghast, Richard2012

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"An armchair traveller's history of Istanbul" is a travel book in the classic tradition of Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Jan Morris. Tillinghast is an old Istanbul hand who first visited the city fifty years ago and has seen it change over the years from a provincial backwater to a vibrant, modern metropolis. His introduction to the city's art and architecture, culture, history, literature and cuisine ranges widely and knowledgeably through the city's Byzantine, Ottoman and Turkish roots, all of it framed by the author's own voyages of discovery. With Tillinghast as a guide through Istanbul's cafes, mosques, palaces and taverns, and along its streets and waterways, readers will feel at home both in the Constantinople of bygone days and on the streets of the modern city. His Istanbul is a densely layered place of deep memory, where the ghosts of Byzantine emperors, theologians and courtesans rub elbows with Ottoman sultans, poets and dervishes.