Moon Istanbul The Turkish Coast

Turkey resident Jessica Tamtürk guides travelers to the highlights of Istanbul and the Turkish coast, from exploring the world-class shopping and dining of Istanbul's Kadiköy district to relaxing on the golden sands of Altinkum's beaches. Tamtürk also offers unique trip ideas, including Outdoor Adventures in Turkey, Retracing History, and Gastronomica. Complete with details on sampling papalina in Ayvalik, hiking the Turquoise Coast's Lycian Way, and touring the architectural marvels of the Thracian Peninsula, Moon Istanbul and the Turkish Coast gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.

This Trip of a Lifetime will leave you with a new sense of wonder — and some great stories to share. Over its 8,000-year history, Turkey's crown jewel has won the hearts of emperors and sultans. Today, Istanbul is a lively meeting place of East and West, religious and secular, traditional and modern. In this full-color book, expert traveler Leann Murphy tells you everything you need to know to make this trip possible. Experience the life of the city by wandering the Grand Bazaar to sampling authentic Turkish coffee and mezes. Appreciate Istanbul's past at the many historic and cultural sites, including the Ayasofya, the Blue Mosque, and Topkapi Palace. Plan a cruise along the Aegean Sea and the Turquoise Coast. Make inland excursions to Cappadocia and Ankara. Choose the best guides, tours, and means of transportation—including bus, boat, and even hot-air balloon.

Berlitz Pocket Guide Turkish Coast combines authoritative narrative detail with colour photography to help uncover the region's extraordinary landscape. It provides visitors with everything they need to know about the attractions along Turkey's coastline, from the picturesque beaches to its remarkable archaeological sites. Practical maps on the cover flaps help explorers get around. Inside Turkish Coast Pocket Guide: Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip. Perfect Tour provides an itinerary of the coast. What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from shopping to working your way around stylish bars. Essential information on Turkish culture, including a brief history of the country. Eating Out covers the country's best cuisine. Curated listings of the best hotels and restaurants. A-Z of all the practical information you'll need.

The Turkish Riviera, known as the Turquoise Coast, is home to stunning mountain scenery, rich myths, and folklore, and more than six hundred miles of impeccable shoreline along the warm Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Featuring two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos and the Temple of Artemis, this stretch of coast is a destination apart, so much so that Mark Antony was said to have chosen it as the most spectacular wedding gift for Cleopatra. Through the lens of Oliver Pilcher, this blue voyage beckons readers with wanderlust to set sail and enjoy the dazzling sapphire shades of the coast’s dreamy yacht life. Anecdotes from lovers of the region include Mica Ertegun, Tommy Hilfiger, Chiara Ferragni, and Mert Alas, who spent summers boating on these storied waters.

Turkey's cultural and business centre stands with one foot in Europe, the other in Asia. Glittering palaces and monumental mosques, crooked wooden houses and twisting narrow lanes, sweeping boulevards lined with gleaming glass and steel -- the sights, sounds and smells of this bewildering, captivating city weave a pattern as intricate as a Turkish carpet. This Way Instanbul also explores the wooded shores of the Bosphorus and around the Sea of Marmara, and the resorts and sites of the Aegean coast.

From the legendary city of Istanbul to the treasures of the Topkapi Palace, from picturesque fishing villages to the ruins of Troy, Turkey lures us with its storied past, breathtaking landscapes, and archaeological gems. This accessible volume takes readers on a fascinating tour of the "wine-colored sea" praised by Homer and the incomparable artistic and architectural heritage of Turkey. Hundreds of full-color photographs and a lively text provide fascinating insights into the storied history and rich culture of this compelling country.

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Franz Werfel's masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian genocide. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the deportation order of the Turkish government. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh"€"Mount Moses"€"and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police during the summer of 1915 while holding out hope for the warships of the Allies to save them. The original English translation by Geoffrey Dunlop has been revised and expanded by translator James Reidel and scholar Violet Lutz. The Dunlop translation, had excised approximately 25% of the original two-volume text to accommodate the Book-of-the-Month club and to streamline the novel for film adaptation. The restoration of these passages and their new translation gives a fuller picture of the extensive inner lives of the characters, especially the hero Gabriel Bagradian, his wife Juliette, their son Stephan"€"and Iskuhi Tomasian, the damaged, nineteen-year-old Armenian woman whom the older Bagradian loves. What is more apparent now is the personal story that Werfel tells, informed by events and people in his own life, a device he often used in his other novels as well, in which the author, his wife Alma, his stepdaughter Manon Gropius, and others in his circle are reinvented. Reidel has also revised the existing translation to free Werfel's stronger usages from Dunlop's softening of meaning, his effective censoring of the novel in order to fit the mores and commercial contingencies of the mid-1930s. In bringing The Forty Days of Musa Dagh back into print and revising the English translation, we aim to make this new Verba Mundi edition more faithful to the book Thomas Mann read "with pleasure and profit" in German.

Bring the world a little closer with these multicultural books. An excellent way for students to appreciate and learn cultural diversity in an exciting hands-on format. Each book explores the history, language, holidays, festivals, customs, legends, foods, creative arts, lifestyles, and games of the title country. A creative alternative to student research reports and a time-saver for teachers since the activities and resource material are contained in one book.