Turkey
Destination: Istanbul and the Middle East Book: The Topkapi Secret (What They Learn About the Koran Could Change the World…or Cost Them Their Lives) by Terry Kelhawk (NEW September, 2010) Am I in danger reviewing this book? The flaks for Kelhawk’s book are going out of their way to persuade us that she is in [...]
PDF Destination: Greece Book: Ionia: A Quest, by Freya Stark, new edition of a travel classic Read a terrific interview with Freya Stark in her eighties. (This is the third of a series of posts about women travel writers, in conjunction with the release of the movie Eat, Pray, Love) Print PDF
Destination: Istanbul Book: Strolling Through Istanbul, The Classic Guide to the City by Hilary Sumner-Boyd & John Freely (Originally published 1972;NEW edition, 2010) I try to imagine strolling the streets of Istanbul, but I am hampered by the perennial action movie shots–camera zooming overhead as swarthy men race through narrow passage ways, overturning carts of [...]
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