Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) - Softcover

Hilary Sumner-Boyd (1910-1976) was professor of humanities at Robert-College-Bosphorus University. His magisterial work, The Seven Hills of Constantinople: A Study of the Byzantine and Turkish Monuments of the City, was unpublished at the time of his death in 1977 and is now being prepared for publication by Bosphorus University Press.

John Freely (1926 - 2017) was born in New York and joined the US Navy at the age of seventeen, serving during the last two years of World War II. He had a PhD in physics from New York University and did post-doctoral studies in the history of science at Oxford. He was for many years professor of physics at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, where he taught physics and the history of science. He wrote more than forty books, including Light from the East: How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped Shape the Western World (I.B.Tauris, 2010), The Grand Turk, Storm on Horseback, Children of Achilles, The Cyclades,The Ionian Islands (all I.B.Tauris), Crete, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Athens, Strolling through Venice and the bestselling Strolling through Istanbul (all Tauris Parke Paperbacks).

Praise for Strolling Through Istanbul:

"A classic. The best travel guide to Istanbul." --The Times

“A guide book that reads like a novel” – William Buckley, The New York Times

"It is a guide-book that reads more like a literary tale and should do well with its subject city decreed European Capital of Culture this year (2010)." --The Bookseller

"Both engaging and scholarly, this is a guide to Istanbul that has yet to be surpassed." --Daily Telegraph/ telegraph.co.uk

"As a guide to the city, John was peerless; it is doubtful whether any westerner in the late 20th century had a better understanding of it than he.
... What makes Strolling Through Istanbul so unusual is its combination of erudition and first-hand observation."