{"product_id":"9781780600567","title":"Stamboul Sketches","description":"Author: John Freely\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781780600567\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Eland Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jan 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 176 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the 1960's John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd explored every alley,\u0026amp;nbsp;cove and monument of their adopted home of Istanbul in between their teaching\u0026amp;nbsp;jobs. They created a legendary guidebook, covering 1,500 years of Byzantine and\u0026amp;nbsp;Ottoman architecture, to a city that was still innocent of tourists. But the\u0026amp;nbsp;passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent\u0026amp;nbsp;of eccentric personalities, too melancholically obsessed with lost monuments, too\u0026amp;nbsp;wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians,\u0026amp;nbsp;dancers, gypsies, dervish, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folkhealers,\u0026amp;nbsp;mimics and prostitutes were cut from their scholarly guidebook.\u0026amp;nbsp;Stamboul Sketches is a slim book compiled from these editorial floor off-cuts.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by travelling in the footsteps of Evliya Celebi, the Puck-like Pepys who\u0026amp;nbsp;wrote about 17th century Istanbul, Stamboul Sketches is a beautiful, quirky\u0026amp;nbsp;portrait of a city caught like a bird on the wing, \"so much changed but so much\u0026amp;nbsp;the same.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924840661150,"sku":"ING-9781780600567","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781780600567.jpg?v=1782953700","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781780600567","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}