Istanbul: A Traveller'S Reader [Audiobook] download free by Laurence Kelly
- Listen audiobook: Istanbul: A Traveller'S Reader
- Author: Laurence Kelly
- Release date: 2016/11/27
- Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781472137166
- Rating: 9.2 of 10
- Votes: 163
- Review by: Kashton Nicholson
- Review rating: 9.83 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/29
- Duration: 5H27M28S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AAC, MP3, WMA, FLAC, WAV, MPEG4 (compression ZIP, CBC, CPIO, TZ, TAR.Z, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 51 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 39M57S (10.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Istanbul, A Traveller's Reader is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by Constantine the Great, Istanbul became a city of fabled riches; after falling to the Turks in 1453, its glories continued, maintained by the strength and wealth of the Ottomans.Drawing on diaries, letters, biographies, travelogues and poems from the sixth century AD onwards, this evocative anthology recreates for contemporary visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople. It provides vivid eyewitness accounts of the coronation of a Byzantine emperor; the funeral of a sultan; the triumphal entry of Mehmet the Conqueror; the building of the Suleymaniye, the most magnificent of the city's moques; and the death of Ataturk in 1938.It also describes the rampant sexual exploits of the Byzantine empress-to-be Theodora; the public execution of a Turkish wife and her young, Christian lover; the near execution of an envoy given the unenviable task of transporting a large organ from England to Constantinople in 1599, a gift from Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III, who was caught admiring the sultan's personal harem; and the unfortunate Frenchman caught drinking wine and eating a pork sausage while sketching in Hagia Sophia in the 1680s.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Guidebooks
- Download servers: Hightail, Uploaded, 1337x, Torrent, Hotfile, Google Drive, FileServe, Dropbox, 4Shared, IDrive. Compressed in ZIP, CBC, CPIO, TZ, TAR.Z, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.24 USD
- Dimensions: 130x197x30mm
- Weight: 364g
- Printed by: Robinson
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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