Offers recommendations for accommodations, restaurants, transportation, shopping, major points of interest, and sightseeing activities in Istanbul.
Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer.
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Istanbul.
Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinational empires and is today a vibrant commercial and artistic city, the largest in ...
Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented ...
Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms.
Now available in epub, the new-look Rough Guide to Istanbul is the perfect travel guide to one of the world's most popular and vibrant cities.
A pioneering challenge to the orientalist perception of the Islamic city.
'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.
Here is its story.
A highly illustrated geography series that studies major cities around the world in depth, looking at topics such as population, climate, geographpy (physical), infrastructure amd the environment.