Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire

by William Holden Hutton

Book Overview

"Where ocean bathes earth's footstool these sea-bowersBedeck its solid wavelets: wise was heWho blended shore with deep, with seaweed flowers, And Naiads' rivulets with Nereids' sea."Strictly speaking the peninsula on which the city stands is of the form of a trapezium. It juts out into the sea, beating back as it were the fierce waves of the Bosphorus, and forcing them to turn aside from their straight course and widen into the Sea of Marmora, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1507730373
• ISBN13: 9781507730379
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"