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Istanbul : a biography of a city /
by Hughes, Bettany.
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BookPublisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016Description: 416 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780297868484 (hbk.) :; 0297868489 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 949.618 HUGSubject(s): Istanbul (Turkey) -- History | History | HistorySummary: Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. In this epic biography, author Bettany Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 949.618 HUG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002938757X | |||
| Book - Adult Hardback | Formby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 949.618 HUG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 02/11/2024 | 002938758X |
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| 949.5072 MIL Paradise lost: Smyrna 1922 - the destruction of Islam's city of tolerance | 949.512 CLA Athens : a history / | 949.618 CHR To the city : life and death along the ancient walls of Istanbul / | 949.618 HUG Istanbul : a biography of a city / | 949.618013 The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople / | 949.7 BEN Yugoslavia: | 949.7 GUT A witness to genocide: |
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. In this epic biography, author Bettany Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities.
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