Ebook: Stamboul sketches: [encounters in old Istanbu]l

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1: Evliya's Dream; 2: Talismans; 3: Evliya and the Sultan; 4: The Procession of the Guilds; 5: The Galata Bridge; 6: Eminönü; 7: The Avenue of the Long Market; 8: Beyazıt Square; 9: The Moon of Ramazan; 10: Wandering Minstrels; 11: The Street of the Dwarf's Fountain; 12: Street Games; 13: The Dust of Seven Shops; 14: The Gypsy Village; 15: The Hunger of Elephants; 16: Laughing Tombstones; 17: Galata; 18: The Princes' Isles; 19: Stamboul Journeys; 20: A Café on the Bosphorus; 21: The Saints in our Alleyways.;Throughout the 1960s, John Freely explored the alleys, hidden corners and monuments of Istanbul, in between teaching, to create a legendary guidebook with Hilary Sumner-Boyd. But all the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervishes, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk-healers, mimics and prostitutes, were cut from their scholarly guide. Stamboul Sketches is fashioned from these off-cuts, a chronicle of.