{"product_id":"9781780600925","title":"Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul","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 inspired by Evliya Çelebi, the Pepys of seventeenth-century Istanbul. It is a beautiful, quirky portrait of a city, which, Freely says, 'grabs you by the heart and never lets you go'.","brand":"Eland Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135475400944,"sku":"9781780600925","price":12.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780600925_p0.jpg?v=1763714507","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780600925","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}