TY - BOOK AU - De Amicis,Edmondo AU - Lansdale,Maria Hornor TI - Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2) AV - DR PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel KW - De Amicis, Edmondo, 1846-1908 -- Travel -- Turkey -- Istanbul N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_(De_Amicis_book); Release date is 2016-04-10; Produced by Josep Cols Canals, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2)" by Edmondo De Amicis is a travelogue published in 1877. This vivid account captures Constantinople during the Ottoman Empire, offering European readers a detailed portrait of the exotic city now known as Istanbul. De Amicis's observations shaped Western imagination of the Orient for generations. Praised by Orhan Pamuk as the best nineteenth-century book about Istanbul and by Umberto Eco for its cinematic descriptions, this work remains a compelling Victorian-era journey through one of history's most fascinating cities. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51728 ER -