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Constantinople

Edmondo De Amicis

出版	Hesperus Classics, 2005
主題	Travel / Essays & TraveloguesTravel / Middle East / GeneralTravel / Middle East / Turkey
ISBN	18439111839781843911180
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WoZpAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This is the first translation into English of one of the most evocative accounts of exotic cities by one of the most loved Italian authors - a triumph of travel literature. to discover that his first glimpse of this much-awaited city will be one obscured and disfigured by fog. Yet as they travel nearer, he comes to appreciate that this slow 'unveiling' - with rooftops, domes and minarets being revealed one by one - is in fact perhaps the best introduction to Constantinople he could wish for. Such an arrival sets the precedent for his entire stay: as he moves around this most cosmopolitan of cities, he sees Greeks side by side with Turks, Armenians with Gypsies, and Catholics with Jews, and comes to a new understanding of the patchwork nature of life. cannot see today. Umberto Eco from his Foreword