Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul Freely John
Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul Freely John Throughout the 1960s, John Freely explored the alleys, hidden corners and monuments of Istanbul, in between teaching, to create a legendary…
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Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul Freely John
Throughout the 1960s, John Freely explored the alleys, hidden corners and monuments of Istanbul, in between teaching, to create a legendary guidebook with Hilary Sumner-Boyd. Stamboul Sketches is fashioned from these off-cuts, a chronicle of chance encounters. But all the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervishes, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk healers, mimics, and prostitutes, were cut from their scholarly guide.
It is a beautiful, quirky portrait of a city which, Freely says, grabs you by the heart and never lets you
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