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| Author: | Orhan Pamuk |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 143846 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Orhan Pamuk’s extraordinarily beautiful “Istanbul” won the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature- once you have picked up and read this brilliant work, you will be in no doubt as to why it did.
Arguably Turkey...
| Author: | Orhan Pamuk |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 182327 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk begins ‘It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.’ In the perfect spring of 1975 Istanbul, Kemal, heir to one of the town’s wealthiest families...
The Liquid Continent - Volume III - Istanbul
| Author: | Nicholas Woodsworth |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 163404 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This wonderful book is part of Nicholas Woodsworth’s “Liquid Continent” trilogy, combining travel narrative, history and a reflection on the essence of life in the Mediterranean.
Volume III, the final...
| Author: | Orhan Pamuk |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 135368 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
My Name Is Red by Omar Pamuk is set in the late 1590s, at the court of an Ottoman Sultan who has commissioned a great book: a celebration of his life and empire, to be illuminated, in the European manner...
| Author: | Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Series: | Penguin Great Journeys |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 154257 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
In "Life on the Golden Horn", Mary Wortley Montagu recounts her adventures on the journey into the Ottoman Empire in the early 1700s. Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what...
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident
| Author: | Geert Mak |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 173581 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident is Geert Mak’s tale of Istanbul’s past and present as represented by the Galata Bridge, which has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century and...
| Author: | Rory MacLean |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 158009 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap...
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