An Istanbul anthology
Subtitle: travel writing through the ages
By: edited by Kaya Genç
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9789774167218
Subjects: Sources; Travel; Literary collections; Description and travel; History
Description: For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The city's maze-like streets and high balconies, its steep alleys, flower gardens, and forested hillsides remain soaked in the vestiges of that imperial past, and it is to that past and to Istanbul's unearthly moods and waters that so many writers and diarists journeyed in search of escape, knowledge, happiness, or sheer wonderment. An Istanbul Anthology takes us on a nostalgic journey through the city with travelers' accounts of the sights, smells, and sounds of Istanbul's bazaars and coffeehouses, its grand palaces and gardens, crumbling buildings, and ancient churches and mosques, and the waters that so haunt and define it. With writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Pierre Loti, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, and André Gide, we discover and rediscover the many delights of this great city of antiquity, meeting point of East and West, and gateway to peoples and civilizations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147).
Table of contents: title: The sea and the view.; title: The proper seat of the Empire of the whole world, -- 1745 / -- Giacomo Casanova ;; title: The mysterious seal, -- 1843 / -- Gérard de Nerval ;; title: Mist over the Golden Horn, -- 1922 / -- Ernest Hemingway ;; title: Entering the city, -- 1875 / -- Edmondo de Amicis ;; title: Veiled in her "Ash-mack," -- 1856 / -- Herman Melville ;; title: The first impressions, -- 1903 / -- Arthur Symons ;; title: Turkey's River Thames, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: The Caiq, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: The Bosphorus on Christmas-day, -- 1815 / -- Lady Emelia Hornby ;; title: The Princes' Islands, -- 1893 / -- Georgina Max Müller ;; title: Feet in the water, like Venice, -- 1903 / -- Arthur Symons; title: Trees, plants, and gardens.; title: Cypresses of the Little Field of the Dead, -- 1903 / -- Arthur Symons ;; title: Garden in the seraglio, -- 1716 / -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ;; title: Tulips in the Grand Vizier's garden, -- 1726 / -- Monsieur d'Andresel ;; title: The gardens of Stamboul, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: In the Belgrade Forest, -- 1716 / -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ;; title: A picnic in the forest, -- 1893 / -- Georgina Max Müller ;; title: A bouquet of flowers, -- 1875 / -- Edmondo de Amicis ;; title: Evergreens, -- 1856 / -- Herman Melville; title: Imperial life and its pleasures.; title: Entrance to imperial sights, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: Description of the Sultan's glorious chambers, -- 1699 / -- Aaron Hill ;; title: The harem in the seraglio, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: A private harem in Bebec, -- 1811 / -- Lady Hester Stanhope ;; title: Grand Signor's concubines at the seraglio, -- 1599 / -- Master Thomas Dallam ;; title: Of the apartments of women and the lodgings of eunuchs, -- 1699 / -- Aaron Hill ;; title: Selamlik of Abdul Hamid, -- 1907 / -- Arthur Conan Doyle ;; title: The Cagaloglu Hamam, -- 1811 / -- Lady Hester Stanhope ;; title: Public procession of the Sultan, -- 1841 / -- Hans Christian Andersen ;; title: Tcheragan Serai, 1852  -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: Marble mausoleum of the Sultan Mahmoud, -- 1867 / -- Mark Twain ;; title: The Dolma Bagtche Palace, -- 1907 / -- Will Seymour Monroe ;; title: City walls, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: The Fortress of the Seven Towers, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: Hippodrome, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: The Palace of the Crown-Wearer, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: Two palaces : Beylerbey and Cheragan, -- 1907 / -- Will Seymour Monroe ;; title: Cheragan Palace's silent rooms of splendour, -- 1875 / -- Edmondo de Amicis ;; title: The small house at Yildiz, -- 1868 / -- Clara Erskine Clement ;; title: The thousand and one columns, -- 1867 / -- Mark Twain ;; title: The Sublime Porte, -- 1903 / -- Arthur Symons; title: Piety and holy places.; title: A typical Istanbul mosque, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: Hagia Sophia, the Church of Divine Wisdom, -- 1716 / -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ;; title: The Sweating Column, -- 1875 / -- Edmondo de Amicis ;; title: Night of Power in the Mosque of Sophia, -- 1907 / -- Arthur Conan Doyle ;; title: Churches of Constantinople, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: The Mosque of Eyub, -- 1907 / -- Will Seymour Monroe ;; title: Sultan Achmet and Sultan Bayezid Mosques, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: Sultan Solyman and Sultana Valida Mosques, -- 1716 / -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ;; title: The Mosque of the Conqueror, -- 1907 / -- Will Seymour Monroe ;; title: A masterpiece of tile decoration : Rustem Pasha Mosque, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: Dervish Lodge at Pera, -- 1843 / -- Gérard de Nerval ;; title: Whirling Dervishes, -- 1716 / -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ;; title: A funeral in Istanbul,-- 1912 /-- Grace Mary Ellison; title: Streets, Festivities, and commerce.; title: Sidewalks and streets, -- 1922 / -- Ernest Hemingway ;; title: A fierce and active struggle, -- 1903 / -- Arthur Symons ;; title: Perfect labyrinth, -- 1856 / -- Herman Melville ;; title: Two bridges, -- 1903 / -- Arthur Symons ;; title: Istanbul beggars, -- 1867 / -- Mark Twain ;; title: The Bazaar, -- 1907 / -- Will Seymour Monroe ;; title: An Oriental shop, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: The Balik-Bazaar and the Grand Bazaar, -- 1875 / -- Edmondo de Amicis ;; title: Smells of the Great Bazaar, -- 1867 / -- Mark Twain ;; title: The real rug market, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: Missir Charshi and the Dried Fruit Bazaar, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: The slave market, -- 1867 / -- Mark Twain; title: Ramadan in Istanbul.; title: Scenes from Ramazan in Istanbul, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: Preparations for the evening meal, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: Bairam in Istanbul, -- 1843 / -- Gérard de Nerval ;; title: Karagueuz, -- 1876 / -- Pierre Loti ;; title: Kocheks and Mettaghs, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight; title: Caffeine and nicotine.; title: A Turkish café, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: Served in the French manner, -- 1843 / -- Gérard de Nerval ;; title: A change in manners, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: Women smokers, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: A greater kick than absinthe, -- 1922 / -- Ernest Hemingway ;; title: Tombeki, -- 1875 / -- Edmondo de Amicis ;; title: Clubs of the poorer classes, -- 1915 / -- Harrison Griswold Dwight ;; title: The exciter of imagination, -- 1875 / -- Edmondo de Amicis; title: The darker parts of the city.; title: Pera's madmen, -- 1811 / -- Lady Hester Stanhope ;; title: The business and shipping centre for the Europeans, -- 1907 / -- Will Seymour Monroe ;; title: First moments in Pera, -- 1876 / -- Pierre Loti ;; title: Tower of Babel, -- 1716 / -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ;; title: Galata Tower, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: Mussulman but like my own homeland, -- 1843 / -- Gérard de Nerval ;; title: Istanbul after hours, -- 1922 / -- Ernest Hemingway ;; title: Istanbul dogs, -- 1867 / -- Mark Twain ;; title: The masters of the city, -- 1903 / -- Arthur Symons ;; title: A fire, -- 1876 / -- Pierre Loti ;; title: Kief, -- 1875 / -- Edmondo de Amicis ;; title: A Turkish bath, -- 1867 / -- Mark Twain ;; title: Around Galata Tower, -- 1852 / -- Théophile Gautier ;; title: Midnight in Pera, -- 1876 / -- Pierre Loti ;; title: Theatre in Pera, -- 1843 / -- Gérard de Nerval ;; title: The city as hell.; title: Hating Constantinople, -- 1914 / -- André Gide ;; title: The end of Istanbul,-- 1850 /-- Gustave Flaubert.