London. 2015. January 2015. Eland Books. 1st of This New Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781780600567. 176 pages. paperback. keywords: Travel Turkey. DESCRIPTION - 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 chance encounters. It is a beautiful, quirky portrait of a city which, Freely says, `grabs you by the heart and never lets you go.' inventory #42582

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Author bio	John Freely (born 1926) is an American physicist, teacher, and author of popular travel and history books on Istanbul, Athens, Venice, Turkey, Greece, and the Ottoman Empire. He is the father of writer and Turkish-to-English literary translator Maureen Freely. Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there and in Ireland. He dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at age 17 for the last two years of World War II, serving with a commando unit in Burma and China. He did his undergraduate work at the traditional American Catholic college, Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, under the G.I. Bill. Freely completed his postdoctoral study at Oxford University under Alistair Cameron Crombie, the pioneering researcher in the history of Medieval European science. The principal idea he inherited from Crombie was 'the continuity of western European science from the Dark Ages through Copernicus, Galileo and Newton'. Following his postdoctoral work, he taught courses in history and astronomy at the Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, including the course, 'The Emergence of Modern Science, East and West'. Since 1960 he has taught physics and the history of science at Bogazici University (formerly Robert College) in Istanbul, with sojourns in New York, Boston, London, Athens, Oxford, and Venice. He returned to Bogazici University in 1993. He is the author of over 40 books.

Author bio

Author bio

John Freely (born 1926) is an American physicist, teacher, and author of popular travel and history books on Istanbul, Athens, Venice, Turkey, Greece, and the Ottoman Empire. He is the father of writer and Turkish-to-English literary translator Maureen Freely. Freely was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up there and in Ireland. He dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at age 17 for the last two years of World War II, serving with a commando unit in Burma and China. He did his undergraduate work at the traditional American Catholic college, Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, under the G.I. Bill. Freely completed his postdoctoral study at Oxford University under Alistair Cameron Crombie, the pioneering researcher in the history of Medieval European science. The principal idea he inherited from Crombie was 'the continuity of western European science from the Dark Ages through Copernicus, Galileo and Newton'. Following his postdoctoral work, he taught courses in history and astronomy at the Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, including the course, 'The Emergence of Modern Science, East and West'. Since 1960 he has taught physics and the history of science at Bogazici University (formerly Robert College) in Istanbul, with sojourns in New York, Boston, London, Athens, Oxford, and Venice. He returned to Bogazici University in 1993. He is the author of over 40 books.

Freely, John. Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul

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