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| #1797803 in Books | Alma Books | 2013-08-01 | 2013-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .31 x.81 x5.01l,.60 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Constantinople, imagined or real?..|By Panayoti Kelaidis|Sometimes those who read too much and have a vivid imagination can conjure up something that smacks of the truth. I was swayed and tossed about by Edmondo's hyperbolic prose, but the awareness that this book represents a mere two or three weeks he spent in the city left me puzzled? Where did he get so many impressions? Wh|||"De Amicis's account of this great, even "monstrous", city is wonderfully eloquent: as restless and busy as Constantinople itself, teeming with the sights, sounds and smells of one of the greatest and most diverse cities on Earth." - The Guardian|"A lo
A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul – which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author’s ship approaches the harbour – Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation and entertaining historical information. An invaluable record of the metropolis as it used to be – a fascinating crossroads between Eastern and Western civilization and one of th...
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