Author: John Freely
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: city, imperial, istanbul
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0140244611
ISBN-13: 9780140244618

"Surrounded by a garland of waters" on the narrow straits of the Bosporus dividing Europe and Asia, Istanbul--formerly known as Constantinople--has been an unrivaled locus of cultural exchange since its beginnings as the Greek colony Byzantium. In its more than twenty-six centuries of existence the city has survived countless natural and political catastrophes, foreign conquests, and dynastic upheavals, enduring fantastic changes in religion, language, political status, and name. Despite these onslaughts of time, a vibrant local character and spirit have abided. This fascinating history of the

Author: John Freely
Publisher: Companion Guides
Keywords: companion, guides, marmara, istanbul, guide
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-05-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1900639319
ISBN-13: 9781900639316

Istanbul is the only city in the world that stands astride two continents, spreading across from Europe into Asia at the southern end of the Bosphorus, the incomparably beautiful strait linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. This Companion Guide to Istanbul goes as far as the region around Marmara from the Bosphorus to the Dardanelles, which flows into the Aegean past the historic ruins of Troy on its Asian shore. Revised and updated for this new edition, the book is a guide to the Byzantine and Ottoman monuments and to the many other places of great historic int

Author: John Freely
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Keywords: europe, oldest, city, walks, unforgettable, athens, fourteen, strolling
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 2004-07-23
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1850435952
ISBN-13: 9781850435952

Athens, city of the gods, birthplace of modern democracy, artistic and cultural center of the ancient world, is steeped in myth and legend. Now, in this newly reissued book publishing just in time for the 2004 Olympics being held in Athans, travel writer John Freely guides readers on a series of walks to the city’s most vibrant and historic areas, from the magnificent Parthenon, center of Athens for four thousand years, to the winding streets of Plaka, the crumbling ruins of the Agora and the color and bustle of Monastiraki. We are led to the theatre of Dionysus, scene of the tragic play

Author: John Freely
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: aegean, islands, greek, discovering, cyclades
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-06-04
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1845111605
ISBN-13: 9781845111601

The Cyclades are the quintessential Greek isles, renowned for the beauty of their seascapes, their historical monuments, and a unique way of life deeply rooted in the remote past of the Aegean. Over the course of more than 7,000 years the Cyclades have seen a succession of civilizations, the earliest of them perpetuated in legends such as that of Atlantis, which has been identified with volcanic Santorini. The islands are arrayed around their sacred centre on Delos, where Leto was said to have given birth to the divine twins Apollo and Artemis, children of Zeus. Dionysus was born on olive-embo

Authors:Hilary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely,
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Keywords: tauris, parke, paperbacks, city, guide, istanbul, classic, strolling
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2010-01-19
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 1848851545
ISBN-13: 9781848851542

Available for the first time since its original publication thirty-seven years ago, this classic guide to Istanbul by Hilary Sumner-Boyd and John Freely is published in a completely revised and updated edition. Taking the reader on foot through Istanbul, the 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 anecdotes, secret histories, hidden gems, and every major place of interest the traveler will wan

Author: Maureen Freely
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: novel, enlightenment
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-05-26
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1590202090
ISBN-13: 9781590202098

"A dark Conradian drama, set in a beautifully illuminated Istanbul, where the past is always with us."-Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband and five-year-old son are detained by U.S. border patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves behind in Istanbul a 53-page letter revealing a convoluted tale of political intrigue, intelligence operatives and Turkish teenage radicals, of a grisly murder and a dismembered body in a trunk. It is a grim and heartbreaking history of first loves shattered and best friends betrayed. Ca

Authors:Orhan Pamuk,  Maureen Freely,
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: innocence, museum
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2009-10-20
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0307266761
ISBN-13: 9780307266767

Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2009: The story of Kemal, the half-hearted industrialist who is the hero of The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk’s first novel since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a deeply private one, built around an often inexplicable obsession that he attempts to justify to the reader. In honor of Füsun, the poor, beautiful cousin he had a short affair with when he was 30 and engaged to another, he has hoarded a museum of relics, both of their time together and of the much longer time when, like Gatsby drawn by the green light on Daisy’s dock