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Stamboul Ghosts: A Stroll Through Bohemian Istanbul Hardcover von John Freely
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Publisher
Cornucopia Books
ISBN-10
0956594883
ISBN-13
9780956594884
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242862052
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stamboul Ghosts: a Stroll Through Bohemian Istanbul
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Customs & Traditions, Middle East / Turkey
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-469076
Dewey Edition
23
Photographed by
Güler, Ara
Afterword by
Freely, Maureen
Dewey Decimal
914.961/8
Table Of Content
Introduction by Andrew Finkel; 1 Death of a Ghost; 2 The Queen of Pera; 3 Ghosts in Exile; 4 The Life of the Party; 5Peter Pfeiffer Memorial Goose-Buying Day; 6 Strolling Through Istanbul; 7 The Legless Beggar; 8 The Imaginary Dog; 9 Burial of a Bohemian; 10 The Elephant's Grave; A Tribute to John Freely by Andrew Finkel.; The Final Journey, by Maureen Freely.; Photographs by Ara Güler
Synopsis
Colourful, cosmopolitan, hard-drinking, often outrageous characters throng this rollicking memoir by the late John Freely, who moved with his family to Istanbul in 1960 and changed travel writing for good with his 1972 guide, Strolling Through Istanbul. Dozens of books on travel, history and science would follow., Would James Baldwin have felt quite so liberated in Istanbul if he had not been a frequent guest at John Freely's parties and experienced that Never-Never-Land sense of bohemia among the expatriate faculty in an outrageously beautiful campus overlooking the Straits? ... Book jacket., The Irish-American physicist, academic and traveler John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history and science before he died in 2017, aged 90. But It was Istanbul, where he emigrated with his family in 1960 to take up a post teaching physics at the American Robert College, that turned him into a writer. His first book, Strolling Through Istanbul, written with his fellow academic Hilary Sumner-Boyd, was an instant success when it was published in 1972 and has never been out of print since. With the exception of Oguz, so thin that he was known as The Ghost because he barely cast a shadow, everyone in John Freely's rumbustious memoir, including the author himself, is larger than life. Bohemian Istanbul was a haven for myriad misfits who found their feet in the city. Clamorous, glamorous, eccentric, cosmopolitan and frequently outrageous, they included the 'berserker' Peter Pfeiffer, a resourceful exile with three passports; Aliye Berger, the beautiful queen of bohemian Pera; the writer James Baldwin; and, fleetingly, the future Pope John XXIII. This elegy for a lost world encapsulates the flavor of their daily life and nightly excesses. Well lubricated with lemon vodka and Hill Cocktails served by Sumner-Boyd's gloomy housekeeper, Monik Depressive, the Freely crowd weave their way from the Galatasaray fish market and the taverns of i ek Pasaji to the Russian restaurant Rejans, and frequently on to the Freely household on the Bosphorus hills, where a party will soon be in full swing and eggnog flowing freely. Stamboul Ghosts is illustrated with Ara Guler's poignant black-and-white photographs, which make of Freely's beloved city an evocative stage-set., The Irish-American physicist, academic and traveller John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history and science before he died in 2017, aged 90. But It was Istanbul, where he emigrated with his family in 1960 to take up a post teaching physics at the American Robert College, that turned him into a writer. His first book, 'Strolling Through Istanbul' - written with his fellow academic Hilary Sumner-Boyd - was an instant success when it was published in 1972 and has never been out of print since. With the exception of Oguz, so thin that he was known as The Ghost because he barely cast a shadow, everyone in John Freely's rumbustious memoir, including the author himself, is larger than life. Bohemian Istanbul was a haven for myriad misfits who found their feet in the city. Clamorous, glamorous, eccentric, cosmopolitan and frequently outrageous, they included the 'berserker' Peter Pfeiffer, a resourceful exile with three passports; Aliye Berger, the beautiful queen of bohemian Pera; the writer James Baldwin and, fleetingly, the future Pope John XXIII. This elegy for a lost world encapsulates the flavour of their daily life and nightly excesses. Well lubricated with lemon vodka and Hill Cocktails served by Sumner-Boyd's gloomy housekeeper, 'Monik Depressive', the Freely crowd weave their way from the Galatasaray fish market and the taverns of Çiçek Pasaji to the Russian restaurant Rejans, and frequently on to the Freely household on the Bosphorus hills, where a party will soon be in full swing and eggnog flowing freely. 'Stamboul Ghosts' is lllustrated with Ara Guler's poignant black-and-white photographs, which make of Freely's beloved city an evocative stage-set.
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DR723.F74 2018
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