SUGGESTED READING
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN We are pleased to bring you reading materials to support your onboard experience and complement your moments ashore. The Smithsonian Collection by Smithsonian Journeys is an engaging enrichment program led by a wide range of experts who are eager to share their first-hand knowledge and expertise. As part of the program, Smithsonian Journeys and our Smithsonian Journeys Experts are pleased to share the below reading lists.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MAPS & GUIDEBOOKS These 6 items are available as a set for $113 including shipping, 15% Eyewitness Guides. Eyewitness Guide Jerusalem: Israel, off the retail price (Item EXMED862). Any additional books ordered Petra & Sinai. DK Publishing, 2014. This compact, illustrated will be shipped free of charge. See page 4 for ordering details. guide provides a thorough overview of Israel and western Jordan, including Petra, Wadi Rum and Amman. (PAPER, 328 Pp., $25.00, Item ISR46) Marina Belozerskaya, Kenneth Lapatin. Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History. Getty Trust Publications, 2004. This lively illustrated guide covers the architecture, painting and sculpture of Ancient Greece from the third millennium to the end of the Hellenistic period. With 282 color and 28 blackand- white illustrations. (PAPER, 144 Pp., $19.95, Item GRE194) HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION Mary Lee Settle. Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Roger Crowley. 1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Place. Touchstone, 1991. Settle’s captivating travelogue is a Clash of Islam and the West. Hyperion, 2006. In this well-paced richly detailed portrait of contemporary Turkey, its people, history, Crowley recounts the dramatic events leading up to and monasteries, myths, archaeological treasures and living surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. traditions. Exemplary. (PAPER, 253 Pp., $16.99, Item (PAPER, 304 Pp., $16.00, Item TKY114) TKY08)
Ari Shavit. My Promised Land, The Triumph and Tragedy John Julius Norwich. A Short History of Byzantium. Alfred of Israel. Spiegel & Grau, 2014. Israeli journalist and New Knopf, 1998. A richly detailed and evocative history of Yorker contributor Shavit delves into the history of Israel, the span of the great empire from the fourth to the 15th its founding pioneers, his own family and, critically, Israel’s century, brimming with intrigue, palace revolution and legacy of occupation, which he puts at the center of this treachery. (PAPER, 432 Pp., $19.00, Item TKY18) penetrating memoir. (PAPER, 464 Pp., $17.00, Item ISR122)
Eyewitness Guides. Eyewitness Guide Turkey. DK Publishing, 2014. Gorgeously illustrated and filled with Richard Stoneman. A Traveller’s History of Turkey. Interlink excellent maps, this compact book provides a thorough Publishing Group, 2009. An accessible, well-written overview of overview of history, traditions and sights. (PAPER, 420 Pp., Turkish history from the Paleolithic to the present. (PAPER, 247 $30.00, Item TKY82) Pp., $14.95, Item TKY13)
Eyewitness Guides. Eyewitness Guide Greece, Athens and the Mainland. DK Publishing, 2015. This superb guide Stephen Kinzer. Crescent and Star. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps 2008. This insightful, anecdotal report on contemporary and a region-by-region synopsis of the country’s life, culture and politics in Turkey comes from a former attractions. (PAPER, 352 Pp., $25.00, Item GRE38) New York Times Istanbul bureau chief who is especially attuned to the powerful geographic position of Turkey and its multiple identities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. (PAPER, 265 Pp., $17.00, Item TKY64) Freytag & Berndt. Mediterranean Cruises Map. Freytag & Berndt, 2010. A double-sided, full-color map of the Mediterranean, including the Iberian Peninsula, the Black Sea, North Africa and the Levant, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (MAP, Pp., $14.95, Item MED36) EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 1 HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION Continued Continued
Alev Lytle Croutier. Harem, The World Behind the Veil. Lord Kinross. The Ottoman Centuries. William Morrow & Abbeville Publishing Group, 2014. A fascinating illustrated Company, 1988. A richly detailed, engrossing history of the look at the culture of the Harem -- particularly the well- Ottoman Empire from its dawn in 1300 up to the foundation known quarters at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. The author of the modern republic in 1923, enhanced by maps and combines interviews, history and a wonderful selection of art photos. (PAPER, 638 Pp., $18.99, Item ITL54) in this intriguing book. (PAPER, 232 Pp., $29.95, Item ARB23)
Amos Oz. In the Land of Israel. Harcourt Books, 1993. In this G. A. Williamson (Translator), Procopius. The Secret compelling volume, Israeli novelist Oz interviewed dozens History. Penguin, 2007. This is historical mudslinging only a of his fellow countrymen from all walks of life. A passionate, Byzantine could devise, a withering account of the scandals, candid and diverse portrait of a people and their hopes, intrigues and infidelities of the splendid empire and the fears and prejudices. (PAPER, 275 Pp., $14.95, Item ISR03) court of Emperor Justinian by none other than its official historian. (PAPER, 208 Pp., $16.00, Item TKY11)
Bernard Lewis. Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Cathy Gere, Mary Beard (Editor). The Tomb of Agamemnon. Empire. University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. In this slim Harvard University Press, 2012. A brief, enlightening guide to volume the great Islamic scholar describes the invasion the archaeological site (a fortified hill in the Peloponnese at of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks on May 29, 1453, Mycenae), its history and current scholarship on the evoking the city at this pivotal moment in its long history. Bronze Age. (PAPER, 208 Pp., $15.50, Item GRE252) (PAPER, 187 Pp., $24.95, Item TKY17)
Karen Armstrong. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. John Camp, Elizabeth Fisher. The World of the Ancient Ballantine Books, 1997. A popular history by the author of A Greeks. Thames & Hudson, 2010. Featuring hundreds of History of God. Armstrong tackles big subjects -- and this illustrations and invitingly short chapters on topics from book is no exception. It’s a comprehensive, concise portrait the first Greeks to the Heroic Age and classical Athens. of the city over the last 5,000 years. (PAPER, 472 Pp., With modern color photographs of great Greek cities from $18.00, Item ISR10) Athens and Delphi to Knossos, Ephesus, Pergamum and Priene. (PAPER, 224 Pp., $24.95, Item GRE365) Jason Goodwin. Lords of the Horizons. Picador USA, 2003. Goodwin artfully combines his modern travels with scholarship, history and reflection, capturing the outrageous personalities, events and vagaries of the 600-yearold Ottoman Empire. (PAPER, 351 Pp., $20.00, Item TKY44) ARCHAEOLOGY, ART & ARCHITECTURE
Nicholas Gage, Barry Brukoff.Greece, Land of Light. Bulfinch Thomas Cahill. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Press, 2004. Brukoff’s dramatic color photographs are paired Matter. Doubleday, 2004. Cahill brings to life ancient Greek with incisive commentary by award-winning author Nicholas society and civilization through the lives and words of Gage for this striking portrait of the people, land and history politicians, playwrights, a poet, a philosopher and an of Greece and the islands. (PAPER, 160 Pp., $24.99, Item artist in this eloquent and absorbing tribute. (PAPER, 320 GRE489) Pp., $17.00, Item GRE182)
Leonard Cottrell. The Bull of Minos, The Great Discoveries Bettany Hughes. The Hemlock Cup, Socrates, Athens and of Ancient Greece. St. Martins, 2009. Cottrell spins the the Search for the Good Life. Vintage Books, 2012. An intriguing tale of great archaeological discoveries in Crete illuminating portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of and Greece by Heinrich Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans, Athens. The award-winning scholar recreates the streets, who brought to light the ruins of Troy, the Palace and red-light district, gymnasia, religious festivals and the treasure-filled tombs of the Mycenaean Kings, and the vast teeming marketplace in the heart of ancient Athens where Palace of Sea Kings at Knossos. (PAPER, 232 Pp., $18.00, Socrates engaged in philosophical dialogue Item GRE402) and where he would be condemned to death. (PAPER, 484 Pp., $17.95, Item GRE528) Mary Beard. The Parthenon. Harvard University Press, 2010. A lively tale of the construction, significance and uses of the 2,500-year-old architectural marvel. (PAPER, 204 Pp., $17.50, Item GRE195)
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 2 TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR LITERATURE
Jeremy Seal. A Fez of the Heart, Travels Around Turkey in Artemis Leontis (Editor). Greece, A Traveler’s Literary Search of a Hat. Harvest Books, 1996. Deftly combining Companion. Whereabouts Press, 1997. In this terrific anthology, reporting, history, politics and travel, Seal doesn’t really 24 modern Greek writers offer a flavor of their nation, its culture focus his Turkish travels entirely on the felt hat! It’s just and people, beautiful landscapes and rich history. (PAPER, 288 the pretext to comment on the country and the dramatic Pp., $14.95, Item GRE190) changes since the rise of Kemil Ataturk (who banned the Fez in 1925). (PAPER, 337 Pp., $20.95, Item TKY16) Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar (Translator). My Name Is Red. Barry Unsworth. Crete. National Geographic, 2007. A travel Alfred Knopf, 2002. Set in sixteenth-century Istanbul, this memoir from the Booker prize-winning novelist, richly charmingly digressive novel combines a murder mystery, detailed and steeped in the millenniaold traditions, myths, artistic debate and a love story. It will also pique your literature and history of the island. (PAPER, 192 Pp., $10.95, interest in Islamic illuminated manuscripts. (PAPER, 384 Item GRE303) Pp., $16.00, Item TKY68)
Robert Graves. The Greek Myths, Complete Edition. Penguin Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said (Introduction), Ahdaf Soueif Putnam, 2012. A new edition of Graves’ classic collection with a cover by comic book artist Ross MacDonald. This (Translator). I Saw Ramallah. Doubleday, 2003. An evocative and powerful memoir, focused on the author’s return to the expert retelling by Graves, a poet, memoirist and the author West Bank after 30 years, a place utterly changed and still at of I, Claudius (ITL429), still remains the seminal modern the center of the devastating conflict between the Israelis and translation of the mythologies of Ancient Greece. (PAPER, the Palestinians. (PAPER, 184 Pp., $15.00, Item MDE73) 800 Pp., $26.00, Item GRE274)
Orhan Pamuk. Istanbul, Memories and the City. Vintage Mary Renault. The King Must Die. Vintage Books, 1988. The Books, 2006. Nobel Prize-winner Pamuk writes with first in Mary Renault’s trilogy of well-researched page- dazzling grace of the city of his birth, a magical place of turners features the tale of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur crumbling mansions and Ottoman riches. (PAPER, 320 and the king of Athens. Known for her exhaustive research, Pp., $16.95, Item TKY99) Renault is an acknowledged master of historical fiction. (PAPER, 330 Pp., $15.95, Item GRE23)
Sayed Kashua. Native, Dispatches from an Israeli- Orhan Pamuk. The Museum of Innocence. Alfred Knopf, Palestinian Life. Grove Press, 2016. Humorous, heartfelt 2010. Pamuk plumbs the depths of romantic attachment and very entertaining, the collected newspaper columns of while exploring the tension between modernity and award-winning journalist Sayed Kashua chronicle his life as tradition in 1970s and 80s Istanbul. (PAPER, 560 Pp., an Arab in Jerusalem between 2006 and 2014. (HARD $15.95, Item TKY207) COVER, 304 Pp., $24.00, Item ISR141)
Henry Miller. The Colossus of Maroussi. New Directions Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator). The Odyssey. Penguin, Publishing Corporation, 2010. Miller captures the spirit and 2006. The blind bard’s epic in a translation celebrated for warmth of the resilient Greek people in this inspired tale of its clarity and expressiveness. Take it along for a voyage a wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu and Delphi in Homeric lands and waters. (PAPER, 541 Pp., $17.00, with his friend Lawrence Durrell. (PAPER, 223 Pp., $14.95, Item GRE45) Item GRE05)
Robert Byron. The Station, Travels to the Holy Mountain Rose MacAulay, Jan Morris (Introduction). The Towers of of Greece. St. Martins, 2011. Written when he was just Trebizond. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012. Mixing high farce, 22 (nine years before his classic The Road to Oxiana), archaeology, history and lively travel writing, Rose MacAulay’s Byron’s spirited account of his time among the monks of impossibly witty short novel is back in a new edition. ancient and sacred Mount Athos already shows both his Originally published in 1956, MacAulay follows the adventures fascination with Byzantium and engaging way with offhand of English missionaries traipsing across Turkey from Istanbul observation. (PAPER, 263 Pp., $19.00, Item GRE463) to Trabzon. (PAPER, 277 Pp., $16.00, Item TKY15)
Daniel Klein. Travels With Epicurus. Penguin Putnam, 2014. Daniel Klein’s witty meditation on the ancients, life in the Greek Islands, his favorite philosophers -- and growing old gracefully -- is also a delightful romp through the Aegean, primarily set on Hydra. (PAPER, 176 Pp., $14.00, Item GRE514) EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 3 LITERATURE NATURAL HISTORY & FIELD GUIDES Continued
Lawson Wood. Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean. Bloomsbury USA, 2016. An easy-to-use guide to the Nikos Kazantzakis. Zorba the Greek. Simon and Schuster Inc., 1996. A modern classic. Set in rural Crete in the early sea life of the Mediterranean, one of the world’s most 20th-century, this is the most accessible of Kazantzakis’ popular diving and snorkeling spots. Includes specially novels. It’s a tale of adventure and philosophy that captures commissioned photos. (PAPER, 128 Pp., $16.00, Item the exuberance of the Greek people. (PAPER, 311 Pp., MED223) $16.00, Item GRE22)
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