In the Palaces of the Sultan
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Published: October 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781593332044
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel - Foreign; Travel; Middle East; Middle East - Turkey; Middle East - General
First sentence: A TOWERING mass of wall flanked by grey bastions, a stretch of beach on whose amber sands lay a dozen or more gaily painted caiques, and a veiled shape pink from head covering to skirt edge, shuffling waterwards in canary-coloured slippers, - such were the signs, pregnant in meaning, that announced to the passengers of the Orient express they had come to their long journey's end.