Turkey Guide, Third Edition

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Summary: The Great Turkish Travel Guide
Review: Wow! I'm not usually big on travel writing, but this is no ordinary travel writing. Most guides, especially in series like this one, are shallow and touristy and cobbled together by blatantly untalented hacks whose main qualification is their willingness to work cheap. Not so here, though. Peck & Sachet depict modern Turkey and its imperial predecessors in exquisite detail, weaving modern realities and the rich desiderata of history into a surprisingly enchanting narrative. Technically flawless but still loose and unbridled, "Turkey Guide" does for Istanbul what Joyce's "Ulysses" did for Dublin: it embodies it perfectly. Bravo!