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Best of Turkey in 13 Days: Recommended Reading & Viewing
Turkey is overwhelmingly rich in history, art and culture. Any preliminary reading, viewing or listening you can do will help you get the most from your trip. For a description of any of these books, visit amazon.com; for videos, go to imdb.com. Rick Steves guidebooks are available at our office in Edmonds and also on our website's Travel Store.
Recommended Reading
Non-Fiction
- Lonely Planet: Turkey
- Let's Go: Turkey 2003
- Cadogan Guide to Turkey
- Europe 101 by Rick Steves and Gene Openshaw — Updated for 2007! Fun history and art overview, includes material on Turkey
- Turkish Odyssey: A Traveler's Guide to Turkey and Turkish Culture — Serif Yenen
- Atatürk: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal, Father of Modern Turkey — Lord Kinross
- Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey — Andrew Mango
- Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet — Karen Armstrong
- Istanbul: Memories and the City — Orhan Pamuk
- Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey — Anastasia Ashman & Jennifer Eaton Gökmen
- Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place — Mary Lee Settle
Fiction
- The White Castle; Snow; My Name is Red — Orhan Pamuk
- Memed, My Hawk — Yashar Kemal
- Savarona — J. Patrick Hart
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