In The Palaces Of The Sultan
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780548168233
Subjects: Islamic Studies; Middle East - Turkey; History : Middle East - Turkey; Social Science : Islamic Studies; Sociology
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.