Description: The great crossroads, Istanbul has absorbed several millennia of different influences; it is both modern and ancient, fluid and constant.
Brief description: Richard Tillinghast is a poet and writer based in Tennessee and Hawaii.
Review Quotes: "Richard Tillinghast's "Istanbul" is a well-wrought and admirably clear guide to the history and present-day reality of the Turkish city."--"Conde Nast Traveller"