An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul

City of Remembering and Forgetting

• Author(s): Richard Tillinghast,
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Pages: 368
• ISBN_10: 190782250X
  ISBN_13: 9781907822506
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Travel / General , Travel / Middle East / Turkey , History / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire ,

Description:... 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.