Books by Hilary Sumner Boyd and John Freely
Strolling through Istanbul
by Hilary Sumner Boyd and John Freely
It is a wonderfully evocative guidebook that is a great pleasure to read. The authors had walked around and made sense of the city in a way that was very exciting. It is still a great introduction to the many layers of the city: it starts from the top layer, which is the contemporary world, and goes deeper and deeper into the past.
Interviews where books by Hilary Sumner Boyd and John Freely were recommended
The best books on Byzantium, recommended by Judith Herrin
Byzantine scholar Judith Herrin, professor emerita at King’s College London, selects five books to help us understand the place of Byzantium in world civilisation.
