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Sweeping from Cappadocia to Çatalhüyük, from the historic Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish Republic, from the textiles of Anatolia to the architecture of Ayasofia to the artistry of Iznik tiles, from the gardens of the Sultan to sumptuous cuisine, the back issues of Cornucopia offer a timeless panoply of the cultures and peoples of this fascinating region.
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VOLUME ONE Issues 1 to 6

Issue 1
Insider’s Turkey

Issue 2
The Essential Rose

Issue 3 £28
The Pink House

Issue 4 £28
The Absolute Guide to Istanbul

Issue 5 £10
The Winter Palaces

Issue 6 £8
Summer Embassies

The miracle of Santa Sophia: last great monument of Roman architecture.
A Scottish Romantic in the East: the paintings of David Wilkie.
Ara Güler’s arresting images

Attar of roses: Anatolia’s liquid gold, the basis of all fine scents.
Brian Sewell on Alexander the Great

Sultans stayed there. Liszt played there. David George captures the original interiors, since destroyed, of Fethi Ahmet Pasha’s house.
Brian Sewell on Sinan’s splendours

Explore Istanbul, the best-kept secret ­ from Beyo€lu to the Bosphorus, from the Golden Horn to the Prince’s Islands

Patricia Daunt and Fritz von der Schulenburg on Istanbul’s imposing winter embassies.
Thomas Hope: the lost drawings of a Regency dandy

Where diplomats headed in the heat: Patricia Daunt and Fritz von der Schulenburg on Istanbul’s airy summer embassies

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VOLUME TWO Issues 7 to 12

Issue 7 £28
The Great Walls of Istanbul

Issue 8
A Turkish Summer

Issue 9
Ideal Worlds

Issue 10 £16
Ingres and Lady Mary

Issue 11 £42
Anatolian Travel Issue

Issue 12 £28
Black Sea Issue

John Julius Norwich and Andrew Finkel on the threat to Istanbul’s city walls.
East with the night: a journey to Konya.
Jewel on the Bosphorus: Nuri Birgi’s yali

Aegean odyssey: Rose Baring and Barnaby Rogerson go west.
An orangery on the Bosphorus: inside the Kibrisli yalð
The undiscovered Grand Bazaar.

Houses in the spirit of Bodrum’s timeless architecture.
Ahmet Vefik Pasha’s clifftop library

How Lady Mary’s writings on harem life inspired the odalisques of Ingres.
Leighton’s Orient: a Victorian artist’s homage to Ottoman style

John Julius Norwich on Aphrodisias, David Barchard on the lost Byzantine churches of Cappadocia, John Carswell on Amasya’s cool courtyards, John Ashe on the road to Kubadabad

Black Sea beauties: the astounding
valley of the Coruh, the glorious cathedral of Ishan, the haunting simplicity of Camlihemsin’s mansions

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VOLUME THREE Issues 13 to 18 Order the complete Volume 3 for £66 (save £30 on the cover prices)

Issue 13 £28
The Turkish Garden Issue

Issue 14 £24
Objects of Desire

Issue 15 £10
Ottoman Athos

Issue 16 £16
Büyükada

Issue 17 £10
The Republic

Issue 18 £8
The Ottoman Riviera

Flowers in profusion: from the window boxes of Istanbul to Alanya’s medieval gardens, from the Book of Tulips to Rüstem Pasha’s exuberant tiles

Mr Atabey’s books: illustrations from a collector’s library.
From Peking to Paris: Lord Montagu’s motoring odyssey

Athos unveiled: 24 pages on the Holy Mountain, the men, the masters and their monasteries

Why Büyükada, largest of the Prince’s Islands, is an old-fashioned idyll: quirky architecture, faded grandeur, simple pleasures and people to match

An extraordinary 40-page portrait of 20th-century Turkey: photographs by Ara Güler, introduced by Norman Stone and David Barchard

Patricia Daunt on the colourful past of Ratip Efendi’s yali, playground of 1950s café society.
A Turkish garden in the Cambridge Fens

VOLUME FOUR Issues 19 to 24 Order the complete Volume 4 for £36 (save £16 on the cover prices)

Issue 19 £10
Polish Treasures

Issue 20 £8
The Lake that Time Forgot

Issue 21 £8
Ottoman Damascus

Issue 22 £8
The Sultan’s Chalet

Issue 23 £10
Ottoman Silk

Issue 24 £8
The Wild East

7000BC: James Mellaart on the astonishing wall paintings of Çatalhüyük, the world’s first city.
Philip Mansel on the Ottoman booty of Poland’s kings

Undiscovered Lake Köycegiz: a world away from the nearby Med.
Hussein Chalayan: architect turned international couturier

Damascus, the perfumed city: a grand tour with Brigid Keenan.
Istanbul’s heathlands: a precious ecosystem under threat

The magnificent guesthouse built for the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Kula waters: revival of an Aegean spa

Glorious garments of the Ottoman court.
Memories of Madam: Ninette de Valois and the birth of Turkish ballet.
Heaven scent: the ultimate attar of roses

Euphoria on the Euphrates: a journey to Anatolia’s Arabian frontier.
Great escapes: the untold story of Pope John’s wartime work in Turkey

VOLUME FIVE Issues 25 to 31 (seven issues) Order the complete Volume 5 for £48 (save £22 on the cover prices)

Issue 25 £10
An Odyssey in Blue and White

Issue 26 £8
Neolithic Art

Issue 27 £8
Sublime Simplicity

Issue 28 £10
Caucasian Peoples

Issue 29 £10
Ottoman Gardens

Issue 30 £8
Early Journeys

Topkapi's blue and white: John Carswell on the Sultans’ porcelain.
Zafer Baran’s mesmeric photography.
The life of Dionysus: Antioch ancient and modern

The birth of art: why southeast Turkey’s neolithic sites are rewriting history.
Patricia Daunt on the Hôtel Nissim de Camondo in Paris

Perfection created with passion: the timeless pots of Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye.
How Turkey travelled the globe with Max Fruchtermann’s postcards.
The dramatic mosaics of the Chora

Caught in the Caucasus: portraits from another age.
Russians in Istanbul: the Tsar’s rooftop churches, and fishing with Trotsky.
Hiking in heaven: the Kaçkars on foot

How the Ottomans turned gardens into an art form.
Iraq’s Turkoman citadel: Kirkuk after the war.
The oldest photographs of Istanbul

A Fifties expedition to the shores of Lake Van and beyond.
Josephine Powell: an American nomad

Issue 31 Volume 5 £16
The Turks of China
Christian Tyler on the plight of China's Turks
David Barchard on the doorman's son who saved the empire

ISSUE 32 Special Edition
The Connoisseur's Guide to Istanbul

Explore the metropolis in all its glory with area-by-area commentary on Istanbul's palaces and pavilions, mosques and markets, shops and shrines, waterways and watering holes, plus feature articles on the city past and present by leading historians, journalists and writers.
Photographs by Jürgen Frank

£70

FINAL FEW COPIES

VOLUME SIX Issues 33 to 38 Order the complete Volume 6 for £80 (save £34 on the cover prices)

Issue 33 £10
Great Exhibitions

Issue 34 £28
Ottoman Kaftans

Issue 35 £28
Istanbul Elegy

Issue 36 £10
A Beauty on the Bosphorus

Issue 37 £28
Woven Treasures

Issue 38 £10
Ottoman Bursa

John Carswell takes in "Turks" at the Royal Academy in London. Photos by Fritz von der Schulenburg
Mothers, Goddesses and Sultanas' at Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts

Power Dressing:
the Imperial kaftans on show at Washington's Sackler Gallery
A 40-page celebration of the architecture of the Black Sea Mountains

The poetic images of Othmar Pferschy
On horseback through Cappadocia
Istanbul's railway stations
James Mellaart, archaeologist ahead of his time

The Palace Lady's yali
Restoring the Zeyrek Camii
The Crimean War
Sir Percy Sykes in Turkestan

Fabulous Fabrics in Istanbul
Edirne: the forgotten city
Lesley Blanch
Dux Schneider: travel in the Bolkars

Ottoman Bursa
Ahmed Vefik Pasha
Turkey's equestrian paradise
The best of Turkey's art books
Food for feasts
Raki tasting
Min Hogg in Cappadocia

All available back issues except Issues 1, 2, 8, 9, 32

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