A Traveller's History of Turkey - Softcover

Stoneman, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566562457 ISBN 13: 9781566562454

Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc, 1998

Synopsis

This book is part of a series for students and tourists who feel they need more background information on Turkey. This concise account covers everything from the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilisation of Catal Huyuk 7000 years before Christ, the treasures of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Selcuks, Byzantines and the Golden Age of the Sultans to the changes of the 20th century.

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Review

Ideal before-you-go reading (The Daily Telegraph )

"...a series which is invaluable. Whether you're travelling or not." (Guardian )

"One of an excellent series of brief histories" (The New York Times )

About the Author

Richard Stoneman is an Oxford trained classicist with a thorough knowledge of ancient Greece, its language and history; he has also published many books on modern Greece and is familiar with the sources from the Middle Ages and the modern period. He is the author of A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece, A Traveller's History of Turkey, A luminous Land: Artists Discover Greece. He is a frequent visitor to Greece and gets withdrawal symptoms if he doesn't go to Athens at least once a year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566562457
• ISBN 13: 9781566562454
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 272