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Stamboul Sketches, EPUB eBook

Stamboul Sketches EPUB

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Throughout the 1960s, John Freely explored the alleys, hidden corners and monuments of Istanbul, in between teaching, to create a legendary guidebook with Hilary Sumner-Boyd.

But all the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervishes, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk-healers, mimics and prostitutes, were cut from their scholarly guide.

Stamboul Sketches is fashioned from these off-cuts, a chronicle of chance encounters inspired by Evliya Celebi, the Pepys of seventeenth-century Istanbul.

It is a beautiful, quirky portrait of a city, which, Freely says, 'grabs you by the heart and never lets you go'.

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