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Travel
Guidebooks
The 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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