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Jem Sultan
The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe
Av John Freely
Häftad, 2005
176 kr
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A remarkable tale of empire and exile, restoring to vivid life one of the most extraordinary and colourful figures of medieval history.Jem Sultan, born in 1459, was one of the wonders of his age. A Turkish prince held captive in Europe at a time when the Ottoman Empire was at its peak, he was …
Istanbul
The Imperial City
Av John Freely
Häftad, 1998
171 kr
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Istanbul's history is a catalogue of change, not least of name, yet it has managed to retain its own unique identity. John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. The book also includes a comprehensive gazetteer of all major monuments and museums. An …
Istanbul
The Imperial City
Av John Freely
E-bok, 1998
125 kr
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Istanbul's history is a catalogue of change, not least of name, yet it has managed to retain its own unique identity. John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. The book also includes a comprehensive gazetteer of all major monuments and museums. An …
Aladdin's Lamp
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2009
126 kr
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Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, …
Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
Av John Freely
Häftad, 2010
277 kr
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House of Memory
Reflections on Youth and War
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2017
173 kr
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An engaging, funny, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy commando unit John Freely''s voice is still …
Strolling Through Istanbul
Av Hillary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely
Inbunden, 2005
2709 kr
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First published in 2005. Long acknowledged to be the 'best travel guide to Istanbul' (Times of London) this classic of travel literature is now available in a larger format in hardback binding. The work is both a useful and informative guide to the city with major useful monuments described in …
Strolling Through Istanbul
The Classic Guide to the City
Av Hilary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely
E-bok, 2009
244 kr
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'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The TimesPractical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best.This is the 2009 revised and updated edition of the classic guide to Istanbul, originally published thirty-seven …
Western Shores of Turkey
Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2004
160 kr
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The Western Shores of Turkey is the distillation of a succession of journeys that John Freely made along this coast - an odyssey spanning a quarter of a century.The Western coast of Turkey has captivated travellers for centuries. With its dramatic mountains and idyllic bays and promontories, …
Ionian Islands
Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Beyond
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2008
204 kr
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Legend has it that the Ionian Islands were created as Zeus' beautiful lover, Io, raced through the Ionian Sea escaping Hera's wrath. Rising from the waters between Greece and Italy, the Ionians - peaks of an underwater mountain range - are quite unlike any of the other Greek islands and are some of …
Inside the Seraglio
Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2016
161 kr
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This is the story of the House of Osman, the imperial dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire for more than seven centuries, an empire that once stretched from central Europe to North Africa and from Persia to the Adriatic. The capital of this empire was Istanbul, ancient Byzantium, a city that …
Art of Exile
A Vagabond Life
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2016
321 kr
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By the time he was six, John Freely had crossed the Atlantic four times. His childhood was spent on the mean streets of 1930s Brooklyn, where he scavenged for junk to sell and borrowed money for books; his first love being Homer's Odyssey. He was 15 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and 17 when he …
Strolling Through Istanbul
The Classic Guide to the City
Av Hilary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely
E-bok, 2009
252 kr
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'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The TimesPractical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best.This is the 2009 revised and updated edition of the classic guide to Istanbul, originally published thirty-seven …
Grand Turk
Sultan Mehmet II - Conqueror of Constantinople, Master of an Empire and Lord of Two Seas
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2009
299 kr
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Sultan Mehmet II, the Grand Turk, known to his countrymen as Fatih, 'the Conqueror', and to much of Europe as 'the present Terror of the World', was once the most feared and powerful ruler in the world. The seventh of his line to rule the Ottoman Turks, Mehmet was barely 21 when he conquered …
Light from the East
How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped to Shape the Western World
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2010
196 kr
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Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began with the translation of Greek …
Celestial Revolutionary
Copernicus, the Man and His Universe
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2014
308 kr
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In the spring of 1500, at the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that "All the world is in Rome." Though no one knew it at the time, this included a young scholar by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus who would one day change the world. One of the …
Travel Guide to Homer
On the Trail of Odysseus Through Turkey and the Mediterranean
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2014
336 kr
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In October 1945 at the age of 19, John Freely passed the southernmost tip of Crete on his way home from the war in China, just as Odysseus did on his homeward voyage from the battle of Troy. He has been bewitched by Homer and the lands of Homer's epics ever since. As the culmination of a life spent …
Children of Achilles
The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the Days of Troy
Av John Freely
E-bok, 2009
354 kr
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Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek …
Stamboul Ghosts: A Stroll Through Bohemian Istanbul
Av John Freely
Inbunden, 2018
282 kr
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The Irish-American physicist, academic and traveller John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history and science before he died in 2017, aged 90. But It was Istanbul, where he emigrated with his family in 1960 to take up a post teaching physics at the American Robert College, that …
Strolling Through Istanbul
Av John Freely, Hillary Sumner-Boyd
E-bok, 2016
935 kr
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First published in 2005. Long acknowledged to be the ''best travel guide to Istanbul'' (Times of London) this classic of travel literature is now available in a larger format in hardback binding. The work is both a useful and informative guide to the city with major useful monuments described in …
Strolling Through Istanbul
Av John Freely, Hillary Sumner-Boyd
E-bok, 2016
942 kr
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First published in 2005. Long acknowledged to be the ''best travel guide to Istanbul'' (Times of London) this classic of travel literature is now available in a larger format in hardback binding. The work is both a useful and informative guide to the city with major useful monuments described in …
Strolling Through Istanbul
Av Hillary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely
Häftad, 2016
856 kr
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First published in 2005. Long acknowledged to be the 'best travel guide to Istanbul' (Times of London) this classic of travel literature is now available in a larger format in hardback binding. The work is both a useful and informative guide to the city with major useful monuments described in …
Stamboul Sketches
Encounters in Old Istanbul
Av John Freely
Häftad, 2014
156 kr
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Throughout the 1960's John Freely and Hilary Sumner-Boyd explored every alley, cove and monument of their adopted home of Istanbul in between their teaching jobs. They created a legendary guidebook, covering 1,500 years of Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, to a city that was still innocent of …
Flame of Miletus
The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How it Changed the World)
Av John Freely
Häftad, 2018
197 kr
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Discover how ancient Greek science shaped the modern world in this captivating journey through philosophy, astronomy, medicine, and the cross-cultural legacy of knowledge.Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in …
Strolling Through Istanbul
The Classic Guide to the City
Av Hilary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely
Häftad, 2019
249 kr
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'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The TimesPractical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best.This is the 2009 revised and updated edition of the classic guide to Istanbul, originally published thirty-seven …
Cyclades
Discovering the Greek Islands of the Aegean
Av John Freely
Häftad, 2006
237 kr
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The Cyclades are the quintessential Greek isles, renowned for the beauty of their seascapes, their historical monuments and a unique way of life deeply rooted in the remote past of the Aegean. Over the course of more than 7,000 years the Cyclades have seen a succession of civilizations, the …
Crete
Discovering the 'Great Island'
Av John Freely
Häftad, 2008
227 kr
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Crete, the 'Great Island' of Greece, has been home to such figures as the legendary King Minos, El Greco and Nikos Kazantzakis. In myth, it is associated with Daedalus and Icarus and the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Today it is one of the most popular destinations in Greece, its visitors …
Ionian Islands
Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Beyond
Av John Freely
Häftad, 2008
206 kr
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Rising from the waters between Greece and Italy, the Ionians - peaks of an underwater mountain range - are some of the most culturally, historically and mythologically rich in all Greece. Consisting of Corfu, Paxos, Ithaka, Lefkas, Cephalonia, Zakynthos and Kythera, they have been variously invaded …
History of Ottoman Architecture
Av John Freely
Inbunden, 2010
1962 kr
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This book is a history of the architecture produced in Turkey under the Ottoman Empire. It focuses on extant buildings in the Republic of Turkey, particularly those in Istanbul and the empire's earlier capitals in Bursa and Edirne. The book begins with a brief history of the Ottoman Empire, …
