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Synopsis
Intelligent but unpretentious, gossipy yet honest, inquiring and unpredjudiced - Busbecq is the sort of man we would all like to meet on our travels. As Hapsburg ambassador to the sixteenth-century court of Suleyman the Magnificent he missed nothing: the intrigue of Roxelana at court, the unloading of Spanish prisoners of war, the yoghurt diet of country Turks, the brutal realities of sixteenth-century realpolitik and the charming, but expensive, habit of being welcomed with gifts of flowers by Janissary guardsmen. Busbecq brings Constantinople, at the heyday of Ottoman power, bursting into life. Turkish Letters is eyewitness history at its best.
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Review
A classic of travel literature. -- Andrew Mango, Times Literary Supplement
Fresh, appreciative and funny. -- Jason Goodwin
It is so fresh, intimate and gossipy, it transcends the centuries. -- The Good Book Guide
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