Issue 32, 2004
Connoisseur’s Guide to Istanbul
A 160-page portrait celebrating the city in all its glory – the palaces and pavilions, mosques and markets, shops and shrines, waterways and watering holes. Istanbul: another view, with essays on the city past and present. Plus: fish from the Bosphorus
Highlights
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Bounty of the Bosphorus
Every spring great shoals swim up through the Bosphorus to breed in the deep, cool waters of the Black Sea, returning south at the end of the summer to the warmer Sea of Marmara and Mediterranean. These twice-yearly visitors to Istanbul are the stars of the gastronomic world and have made the Bosphorus famous for its fish.
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A Stroll with the Master
Owen Matthews wanders around the Golden Horn’s heady past with John Freely, the man who made strolling through the city an art
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Walking the Golden Mile
This is the starting point for any visitor, the very heart of two great empires. Andrew Finkel explores a world of beauty and grandeur dusting itself down for a third millennium
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Ottoman Renaissance: The Conqueror’s Dream
From the morning of May 31, 1453, until his death twenty-eight years later, Sultan Mehmet II was fixated with re-creating and repopulating his newly acquired capital, Konstantiniyye. Historian Heath Lowry sheds light on the Ottoman Renaissance.
Inside the issue
The Connoisseur’s Guide to Istanbul
- A 160-page portrait celebrating the city in all its glory. An area-by-area exploration of the palaces and pavilions, the mosques and markets, the shops and shrines, the waterways and watering holes. A guide for the discerning, with introductory essays on the city past and present. Photographs by Jürgen Frank
The Essays
- The New Istanbul: Crossroads of the World, by Andrew Finkel
- The Spend of History, by Elizabeth Meath Baker
- After Crimea: A Metropolis is Born, by David Barchard
- Ottoman Renaissance: The Conqueror's Dream, by Heath W Lowry
- Byzantium: Mystery and Imagination, by Robert Ousterhout
The Guide
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THE OLD CITY
Sultanahmet, the Bazaars, the Golden Horn, by Andrew Finkel, Elizabeth Meath Baker, Owen Matthews, Robert Ousterhout and Godfrey Goodwin -
Sultanahmet
Walking the Golden Mile, with Andrew Finkel -
The Golden Horn
A Stroll with the Master: Owen Matthews explores the Golden Horn with John Freely -
THE NEW CITY
Beyoğlu, Çukurcuma, Nişantaşi, by Maureen Freely, Elizabeth Meath Baker and Suna Erdem -
THE BOSPHORUS
All Along the Waterfront, by Patricia Daunt, Claire Karaz and John Carswell -
THE PRINCES ISLANDS
Some Enchanted Evening, by Owen Matthews - Restaurants by Andrew Finkel, Hettie Judah and Anastasia Ashman
Books
- Suits and Uniforms: Turkish Foreign Policy Since the Cold War, by Philip Robins
- The Turks Today by Andrew Mango. Reviewed by Norman Stone
- Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul by John Freely and Ahmet S Çakmak. Reviewed by David Barchard
- Young Turk by Moris Farhi. Reviewed by Antony Wynn
Cookery
- Fish from the Bosphorus, by Berrin Torolsan
Regulars
- Village Voices, by Azize Ethem
- Istanbul Diary: Jazz Notes, by Tony Barrell
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Issue 32, 2004£500.00 / $759.55 / 1,397.95 TL
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