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Title: Blue Guide Istanbul, Fifth Edition (Blue Guides) by John Freely ISBN: 0-393-32014-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Guide for Big Boys and Girls
Comment: I lived and worked in Ankara for three years, and used this guide and its predecessor every time I visited Istanbul. If you want to get off the beaten track, or if you really want to understand what you're looking at, this is the guide for you. If you want something glossy and light, as some of the other reviewers seemed to have wanted, this isn't for you. It's an in-depth guide, meant for people who are interested in culture, history, and architecture. It's not a picture book, nor is it designed to let you plan where you'll stay or where you'll eat, though it does provide limited, good recommendations. In one year I'm returning to Turkey to live in Istanbul for four years. I'll be taking this guide with me to explore what I didn't get to see before, and I'll be sure to snap up a revised edition when it comes up for sale. I've lived overseas and have used other Blue Guides in depth -- Ireland, England, Scotland, Greece, and China -- this Blue Guide, as well as Blue Guide Turkey, is every bit the equal of the others. In fact, I think it's better.
Rating: 4
Summary: Heavy stuff
Comment: This is the detailed guide for someone with a fairly long stay in Istanbul and a serious interest in art and history. Compared with the Lonely Planet Istanbul it's not as readable and has less practical "how to get there" and "where to stay" information but it's usful once you're in a particular building and want to know more about it. Sometimes it tells you more than you want to know but it seldom tells less.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not up to the usual Blue Guide standard
Comment: In general, one can trust the Blue Guide series to be accurate, precise and informative; this guide to Istanbul, one the other hand, is a disgrace to the series: I have just returned from a short trip having noted over twenty mistakes (about two a day!). These mistakes range from incorrect phone numbers for hotel and restaurants (at least three, but still excusable) to missing hotels, to unscholarly, opinionated blather about how Turks are choosing to develop their city (utterly inexcusable from an author with Freely's scholarly pretensions). In short, avoid this book!
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Title: Blue Guide Turkey, Third Edition (Blue Guides) by Bernard McDonagh ISBN: 0393321371 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Turkish-English/English-Turkish Dictionary & Phrasebook (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks) by Charles Gates ISBN: 0781809045 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook (Phrasebook Series) by Tom Brosnahan, Jim Masters, Perihan Masters ISBN: 0864424361 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's History by Seton Lloyd ISBN: 0520220420 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.84 |
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Title: Eat Smart in Turkey: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Eat Smart Series, No. 2) by Joan Peterson, David Peterson, S. V. Medaris ISBN: 0964116820 Publisher: Ginkgo Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.36 |
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