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Travel Guidebooks
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best companions while you're on the road in Istanbul and Turkey. More...

Turkish History Books
What you get out of a trip depends on how well you prepare. Here are the background books, from simple to scholarly, including two wonderful books by Hugh Pope that read like novels. More...

Modern Turkey
Here are the best books on the rise and progress of the Turkish Republic in the 20th century, and its prospects for the 21st. More...

Archeology
Read Michael Balter's exciting new book on the swashbuckling archeologist James Mellaart and the discovery of the amazing Neolithic settlement at Çatalhöyük. More...

Adventure
My old friend Dux Schneider bought a donkey and trekked through the Bolkar Mountains of Turkey's Mediterranean coast, getting to know the secretive Tahtacilar ("Woodcutter") people along the way. Then there's Ms Maliha Masood, searching for her Islamic roots but being taken for a spy.... More...

Architecture
Turkey is virtually an architectural museum, with works from 5000 years ago to the present day: Hittite, Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, modern. More...

Biography
Popular history: reading about people is among the best ways to learn about a country and its culture. Biographies of Kemal Atatürk and Turkish families living in both Ottoman and republican times, including M A Whitten's delightful An Island in Istanbul. More...

Turkish Cuisine
Turkish cuisine is the 'sleeper,' the grand surprise for every visitor to Turkey. 'I never expected the food to be so good!' is the common refrain among returning visitors. It's even better if you know something about it before you go. More...

Fiction/Novels
From Agatha Christie to Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's romance and exoticism has fascinated novelists. More...

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