The Palace Lady's Summerhouse: And other inside stories from a vanishing Turkey.
The Palace Lady's Summerhouse: And other inside stories from a vanishing Turkey.
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Details
- Year of publication
- 2017
- ISBN
- 9786058308039
- Place of printing
- Istanbul
- Author
- Patricia Daunt.
- Pages
- 0
- Publishers
- Cornucopia Books
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Keyword
- Istanbul, Constantinople
- Binding description
- Hardcover
- State of preservation
- New
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
Description
Original bdg. HC. 4to. In English. 304 p., 232 numerous plates. The Palace Lady's Summerhouse: And other inside stories from a vanishing Turkey. From Istanbul's palatial old embassies to its glorious Bosphorus summerhouses, from Ottoman Paris to Ankara's Art Deco, from rainforest mansions to a mad mosque in the mountains A diplomat's wife reveals surprising secret histories. This book brings together essays by Patricia Daunt written for Cornucopia Magazine over the past twenty-five years. It concludes with her latest article, on the magnificent ruins of Aphrodisias, newly listed as a World Heritage Site, but long one of her greatest loves."Foreword by John Julius Norwich. Includes 232 plates the author is the wife of Sir Timothy Daunt, a former British ambassador to Turkey".
