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Author: Nicholas WoodsworthCondition: NewFormat: HardbackPages: 282Publisher: The Armchair Traveller at the BookhausYear: 2008ISBN: 9781905791583
Under the Ottomans, who ruled the eastern Mediterranean for 500 years, cosmopolitan life in Istanbul took a particularly vigorous and productive form, creating a web of connection and identity that is conspicuously absent in our own era.
'This book is a ravishing account of the enchantment of a poet by the landscape, rekindling in us the wish to buy a ticket at once and embark for the islands'-Orhan Pamuk
The final chapter in the acclaimed Duskwalker trilogy.
This is the first monograph on the award-winning Istanbul-based architecture and design firm Zoom TPU