An Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries

by Kaya Genç

For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The city's maze-like streets and high balconies, its steep alleys, flower gardens, and forested hillsides remain soaked in the vestiges of that imperial past, and it is to that past and to Istanbul's unearthly moods and waters that so many writers and diarists journeyed in search of escape,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 977416721X
• ISBN13: 9789774167218
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.8" x 6.4"