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An Ottoman Traveller
'Evliya Celebi was the widest-eyed, most intensely curious ... and prolific travel writer the Ottoman world ever produced. A learned and perceptive gentleman-observer from courtly Istanbul at the height of...
Dinner of Herbs: Village Life in 1960s Turkey
Carla Grissman spent the better part of a year living with a local peasant family in a farming hamlet in remote Anatolia, some 250 km east of Ankara. The hospitality,...
Byzantine Soldier vs Seljuk Warrior: Manzikert to Myriokephalon,
This colourful study investigates the Byzantine and Seljuk forces that fought in a series of battles with profound implications for the Middle East during the 11th and 12th centuries. The...
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2024 'As epic as it is engaging' Tom Holland 'Jaunty, highly informative and ultimately sobering' New York Review of Books 'A fine...
The Silence of Scheherazade
September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy...
The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights
The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar . In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was...
Lost Boys of Anzac
Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we...
The Wooden Library (Ikmen Mystery 27): Meet Ikmen in THE TURKISH
The twenty-seventh mystery featuring Inspector Ikmen, star of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective. Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is on holiday in Romania when his distant cousin calls....
To The City: Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
Turkey Picture Book
$12.00 AUD
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Ataturk: the Rebirth of a Nation
The book titled Ataturk: the Rebirth of a Nation by the author Patrick Kinross. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Turkey
$20.00 AUD
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Dervish: Invention of Modern Turkey
Unlike most writers, who give a European eye-view of a Turkey that mourns all that is lost, and consider it in the light of a holiday resort, this book explores...
Anatolia: Adventures in Turkish Cooking
$120.00 AUD
Anatolia is a richly illustrated, entertaining and informative exploration of the regional cooking culture of Turkey. Turkish-born chef Somer Sivrioglu and co-author David Dale re-imagine the traditions of Turkish cooking,...
A Very Dangerous Pursuit (The Richard Hannay Adventures, Book 1)
Adventure can be a deadly business. 'A marvelous, rollicking tale of derring-do' Peter James 'A beautifully written masterclass' Janice Hallett '007 meets Tintin meets Sharpe' Damien Lewis 'A delight!' Fern...
Turquoise: A Chef's Travels in Turkiye
Greg and Lucy Malouf's classic cookbook Turquoise is now available as a new edition. In Turquoise Greg and Lucy Malouf delight us by bringing their own inimitable blend of food...
Queering Sexualities in Turkey: Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City
Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics - when compared to many other countries in the Middle East - the more conservative elements within Turkish politics and...
Ataturk
The book titled Ataturk by the author Alan Palmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Borderlands: Nation and Empire
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The book titled Borderlands: Nation and Empire by the author Scott Malcolmson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
God's City: Byzantine Constantinople
Byzantium. Was it Greek or Roman, familiar or hybrid, barbaric or civilised, Oriental or Western? In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom, the...
A Very Dangerous Pursuit (The Richard Hannay Adventures, Book 1)
Adventure can be a deadly business. 'A marvelous, rollicking tale of derring-do' Peter James 'A beautifully written masterclass' Janice Hallett '007 meets Tintin meets Sharpe' Damien Lewis 'A delight!' Fern...
Istanbul
Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home...
Days in the Caucasus
We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic'...
The Turkish Embassy Letters: 1716-1718
Mary Montagu was one of the most extraordinary characters in the world. She was a self-educated intellectual, a free spirit, a radical, a feminist but also an entitled aristocrat and...
Gallipoli
One of the most famous battles in history, Gallipoli forced Churchill from office, established Turkey's iconic founder Mustafa Kemal ('Ataturk') and marked Australia's emergence as a nation in its own...
Constantinople: Through the Lenses of Achilles Samantzis and Evgenios
"Constantinople" is a beautiful album of photographs that documents the great city of Constantinople at the turn of the 20th century and revisits it in the 1960s. Achilles Samantzis -...
The Wooden Library (Ikmen Mystery 27): Meet Ikmen in THE TURKISH
The twenty-seventh mystery featuring Inspector Ikmen, star of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective. Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is on holiday in Romania when his distant cousin calls....
Smoke and Seasoned Bread: Recipes from Turkiye
'This is Has at his best' - Jamie Oliver 'A modern Turkish bible' - Tom Parker Bowles 'Soulful, inquisitive and thrillingly unpretentious all at once.' - Jimi Famurewa Think kebabs...
Arabica: Small Plates, Big Connections: A journey through the flavours
Arabica celebrates the vibrant flavours of the Eastern Mediterranean - whisking you on a culinary journey through the fertile valleys, mountain villages, coastal towns, and vibrant cities of Lebanon, Syria,...
Smoke and Seasoned Bread: Recipes from Turkiye
'This is Has at his best' - Jamie Oliver 'A modern Turkish bible' - Tom Parker Bowles 'Soulful, inquisitive and thrillingly unpretentious all at once.' - Jimi Famurewa Think kebabs...
Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in
Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature,...
Venice: A New History
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost...
Gallipoli
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This account of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 brings an epic tragedy to life. As well as taking the reader into the trenches to witness the fear, courage and humour...
Lost Words: An Armenian Story of Survival and Hope
Based on a true family story, this inspiring picture book about the Armenian Genocide shares an often-overlooked history and honors the resilience of the Armenian people. What is it like...
Orlando
Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the...
A Knife to the Heart (Ikmen Mystery 21): Inspiration for THE TURKISH
The twenty-first chilling Istanbul crime thriller starring etin Ikmen , 'the Morse of Istanbul' ( Daily Telegraph ), from Silver Dagger Award-winning author Barbara Nadel. Not to be missed by...
The Wooden Library (Ikmen Mystery 27): Meet Ikmen in THE TURKISH
The twenty-seventh mystery featuring etin Ikmen and Mehmet S u leyman, stars of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective , available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Inspector...
The Wooden Library (Ikmen Mystery 27): Meet Ikmen in THE TURKISH
The twenty-seventh mystery featuring etin Ikmen and Mehmet S u leyman, stars of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective , available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Inspector...
Murder in Constantinople
A gripping, immersive historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London's East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean...
Tradition of the Turkish House and Safranbolu Houses
$60.00 AUD
The book titled Tradition of the Turkish House and Safranbolu Houses by the author Reha Gunay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the
Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...
To The City: Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
Istanbul and Northwest Turkey
This guide includes an encyclopaedic and historical section about Istanbul and 232 itineraries. A practical section listing addresses and telephone numbers, opening times of museums and details on hotels, bars,...
Days in the Caucasus
A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have...
Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern
Chesnok: Recipes with Love from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Beyond is Polina Chesnakova's third cookbook, a love letter to the food of her childhood. Born in Ukraine to Russian...
Mediterranea: Life-perfected Recipes from Grandmothers of the
Mediterranea is a delicious deep-dive into the kitchens of the Med's most qualified cooks: its grandmothers. A colourful, sensory journey through the coastal region, this book is a celebration of...
There are Rivers in the Sky
''There are Rivers in the Sky is an enchanting epic, told through the vantage of single raindrop, where the sacred mysteries of water, science, and poetry collide' - Safiya Sinclair...