A Traveller's History of Turkey - Couverture souple

Stoneman, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907973052 ISBN 13 : 9781907973055

Editeur : The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus, 2011

Synopsis

Throughout the millennia Turkey formed the core of several Empires - Persia, Rome, Byzantium - before becoming the center of the Ottoman Empire. All these civilizations have left their marks on the landscape, architecture and art of Turkey - a place of fascinating overlapping cultures. "Traveller's History of Turkey" offers a concise and readable account of the region from prehistory right up to the present day. It covers everything from the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilization of Catal Huyuk seven thousand years before Christ, through the treasures of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Seljuks, Byzantines and the Golden Age of the Sultans, to the twentieth century's great changes wrought by Kemal Ataturk and the strong position Turkey now holds in the world community.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A Traveller's History of Turkey offers a full and accurate portrait of the region from Prehistory right up to the present day. Particular emphasis is given to those aspects of history which have left their mark on the sites and monuments that are still visible today. Modern Turkey is the creation of the present century, but at least seven ancient civilisations had their homes in the region. Turkey also formed a significant part of several empires - those of Persia, Rome and Byzantium, before becoming the centre of the Ottoman Empire. All of these great cultures have left their marks on the landscape, architecture and art of Turkey - a place of bewildering facets where East meets West with a flourish. Richard Stoneman's concise and readable account covers everything including the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilisation of Catal Huyuk seven thousand years before Christ, the treasure of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Seljuks, Byzantines and the Golden Age of the Sultans to the twentieth century's great changes wrought by Kemal Atatuirk and the strong position Turkey now holds in the world community.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Richard Stoneman is an Oxford trained classicist with a thorough knowledge of ancient Greece, its language and history; he has also published many books on modern Greece and is familiar with the sources from the Middle Ages and the modern period. He is the author of A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece, A Traveller's History of Turkey, and A Luminous Land: Artists Discover Greece. He is a frequent visitor to Greece and gets withdrawal symptoms if he doesn't go to Athens at least once a year.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1907973052
• ISBN 13: 9781907973055
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272