An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul: City of Remembering and Forgetting

by Richard Tillinghast

Overview

The author is an old Istanbul hand who has seen it change over the years from a provincial backwater to today's vibrant metropolis. With Tillinghast as a guide through Istanbul's cafés, mosques and palaces, and along its streets and waterways, readers will feel at home both in the Constantinople of bygone days and on the streets of the modern town.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907973215
Publisher:	Haus Publishing
Publication date:	03/19/2013
Series:	Armchair Traveller's History
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	4.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Richard Tillinghast is a travel writer, poet and translator. In 2008 he published Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture, winner of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for Travel Essays. He was awarded the Amy Lowell Travelling Fellowship from Harvard and the Cleanth Brooks Prize for creative non-fiction. He is a 2010-2011 Guggenheim Fellow.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Richard Tillinghast's Istanbul is a well-wrought and admirably clear guide to the history and present-day reality of the Turkish city."—Condé Nast Traveller

Editorial Reviews

"Richard Tillinghast's Istanbul is a well-wrought and admirably clear guide to the history and present-day reality of the Turkish city."—Condé Nast Traveller

From the Publisher