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Issue 1
Insider’s Turkey
The miracle of Santa Sophia: last great monument of Roman architecture.
A Scottish Romantic in the East: the paintings of David Wilkie.
Ara Güler’s arresting images.


Issue 2
The Essential Rose
Attar of roses: Anatolia’s liquid gold, the basis of all fine scents.
Brian Sewell on Alexander the Great.


Issue 3, £28 ($42)
The Pink House
Sultans stayed there. Liszt played there. David George captures the original interiors, since destroyed, of Fethi Ahmet Pasha’s house.
Brian Sewell on Sinan’s splendours.


Issue 4, £28 ($42)
The Absolute Guide to Istanbul
Explore Istanbul, the best-kept secret – from Beyoglu to the Bosphorus, from the Golden Horn to the Prince’s Islands.


Issue 5, £10 ($15)
The Winter Palaces
Patricia Daunt and Fritz von der Schulenburg on Istanbul’s imposing winter embassies.
Thomas Hope: the lost drawings of a Regency dandy.


Issue 6, £8 ($12)
Summer Embassies
Where diplomats headed in the heat: Patricia Daunt and Fritz von der Schulenburg on Istanbul’s airy summer embassies.

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Issue 7, £28 ($42)
The Great Walls of Istanbul
John Julius Norwich and Andrew Finkel on the threat to Istanbul’s city walls.
East with the night: a journey to Konya.
Jewel on the Bosphorus: Nuri Birgi’s yali.


Issue 8
A Turkish Summer
Aegean odyssey: Rose Baring and Barnaby Rogerson go west.
An orangery on the Bosphorus: inside the Kibrisli yali
The undiscovered Grand Bazaar.


Issue 9
Ideal Worlds
Houses in the spirit of Bodrum’s timeless architecture.
Ahmet Vefik Pasha’s clifftop library.


Issue 10, £20 ($30)
Ingres and Lady Mary
How Lady Mary Montagu’s writings on harem life inspired the odalisques of Ingres.
Leighton’s Orient: a Victorian artist’s homage to Ottoman style.


Issue 11
Anatolian Travel Issue
John Julius Norwich on Aphrodisias, David Barchard on the lost Byzantine churches of Cappadocia, John Carswell on Amasya’s cool courtyards, John Ashe on the road to Kubadabad.


Issue 12, £28 ($42)
Black Sea Issue
Black Sea beauties: the astounding
valley of the Coruh, the glorious cathedral of Ishan, the haunting simplicity of Camlihemsin’s mansions.

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Volume three: Issues 13 -


Issue 13, £28 ($42)
The Turkish Garden
Flowers in profusion: from the window boxes of Istanbul to Alanya’s medieval gardens, from the Book of Tulips to Rüstem Pasha’s exuberant tiles.


Issue 14, £28 ($42)
Objects of Desire
Mr Atabey’s books: illustrations from a collector’s library.
From Peking to Paris: Lord Montagu’s motoring odyssey.
 


Issue 15, £10 ($15)
Ottoman Athos
Athos unveiled: 24 pages on the Holy Mountain, the men, the masters and their monasteries.

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Issue 16, £20 ($30)
Buyukada
Why Büyükada, largest of the Prince’s Islands, is an old-fashioned idyll: quirky architecture, faded grandeur, simple pleasures and people to match.
 

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Issue 17, £10 ($15)
The Republic
An extraordinary 40-page portrait of 20th-century Turkey: photographs by Ara Güler, introduced by Norman Stone and David Barchard.


Issue 18, £8 ($12)
The Ottoman Riviera
Patricia Daunt on the colourful past of Ratip Efendi’s yali, playground of 1950s café society.
A Turkish garden in the Cambridge Fens.

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Volume four: Issues 19 -


Issue 19, £10 ($15)
Polish Treasures
7000BC: James Mellaart on the astonishing wall paintings of Çatalhüyük, the world’s first city.
Philip Mansel on the Ottoman booty of Poland’s kings.
 


Issue 20, £8 ($12)
The Lake that Time Forgot
Undiscovered Lake Köycegiz: a world away from the nearby Med.
Hussein Chalayan: architect turned international couturier.


Issue 21, £8 ($12)
Ottoman Damascus
Damascus, the perfumed city: a grand tour with Brigid Keenan.
Istanbul’s heathlands: a precious ecosystem under threat.


Issue 22, £8 ($12)
The Sultan’s Chalet
The magnificent guesthouse built for the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Kula waters: revival of an Aegean spa.


Issue 23, £10 ($15)
Ottoman Silk
Glorious garments of the Ottoman court.
Memories of Madam: Ninette de Valois and the birth of Turkish ballet.
Heaven scent: the ultimate attar of roses.
 


Issue 24, £8 ($12)
The Wild East
Euphoria on the Euphrates: a journey to Anatolia’s Arabian frontier.
Great escapes: the untold story of Pope John’s wartime work in Turkey.

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Volume five: Issues 25 -


Issue 25, £10 ($15)
An Odyssey in Blue and White
Topkapi's blue and white: John Carswell on the Sultans’ porcelain.
Zafer Baran’s mesmeric photography.
The life of Dionysus: Antioch ancient and modern.
 

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Issue 26, £8 ($12)
Neolithic Art
The birth of art: why southeast Turkey’s neolithic sites are rewriting history.
Patricia Daunt on the Hôtel Nissim de Camondo in Paris.

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Issue 27, £8 ($12)
Sublime Simplicity
Perfection created with passion: the timeless pots of Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye.
How Turkey travelled the globe with Max Fruchtermann’s postcards.
The dramatic mosaics of the Chora.
 

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Issue 28, £10 ($15)
Peoples of the Black Sea
Caught in the Caucasus: portraits from another age.
Russians in Istanbul: the Tsar’s rooftop churches, and fishing with Trotsky.
Hiking in heaven: the Kaçkars on foot.

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Issue 29, £10 ($15)
Ottoman Gardens
How the Ottomans turned gardens into an art form.
Iraq’s Turkoman citadel: Kirkuk after the war.
The oldest photographs of Istanbul .

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Issue 30, £8 ($12)
Early Journeys
A Fifties expedition to the shores of Lake Van and beyond.
Josephine Powell: an American nomad.

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Issue 31 Volume 5,
£20 ($30)
The Turks of China
Christian Tyler on the plight of China's Turks
David Barchard on the doorman's son who saved the empire

 

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Issue 32 Special Edition
The Connoisseur's Guide to Istanbul

Explore the metropolis in all its glory with area-by-area commentary on Istanbul's palaces and pavilions, mosques and markets, shops and shrines, waterways and watering holes, plus feature articles on the city past and present by leading historians, journalists and photographers.

£300 ($450)
Final few copies

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Issue 33, £10 ($15)
Great Exhibitions
John Carswell takes in "Turks" at the Royal Academy in London. Photos by Fritz von der Schulenburg
Mothers, Goddesses and Sultanas' at Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts.
 

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Issue 34, £28 ($42)
Ottoman Kaftans
Power Dressing:
the Imperial kaftans on show at Washington's Sackler Gallery
A 40-page celebration of the architecture of the Black Sea Mountains.

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Issue 35, £28 ($42)
Istanbul Elegy
The poetic images of Othmar Pferschy
On horseback through Cappadocia
Istanbul's railway stations
James Mellaart, archaeologist ahead of his time.

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Issue 36, £10 ($15)
A Beauty on the Bosphorus
The Palace Lady's yali
Restoring the Zeyrek Camii
The Crimean War
Sir Percy Sykes in Turkestan.

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Issue 37
Woven Treasures
Fabulous Fabrics in Istanbul
Edirne: the forgotten city
Lesley Blanch
Dux Schneider: by donkey in the Bolkars.

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Issue 38, £20 ($30)
Ottoman Bursa
Ottoman Bursa
Ahmed Vefik Pasha
Turkey's equestrian paradise
The best of Turkey's art books
Food for feasts
Raki tasting
Min Hogg in Cappadocia.

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Issue 39, £10 ($15)
Diplomatic Secrets
Ankara's palaces of diplomacy. Eksioglu's eccentric vision. George Maw crocus collector. Phrygian highlands and Anatolian nomads
 

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Issue 40, £10 ($15)
Highlights of the First 40 Issues
Byzantium at the RA, Orientalists at the Pera Museum, Aphrodisius, plus Min Hogg's enchanted eye

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Issue 41, £10 ($15)
Bathing Beauty
Inside Istanbul's grand hammams.
The private world of Selim III.
Charles Newton excavates Bodrum and Knidos. Books special, plus miraculous celeriac.

The complete set of all
Except Issues 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 32 and 37 (not availablewith this offer)

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