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The IrishAmerican physicist, academic and traveler John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history and science before he died in 2017, aged 90. But It was Istanbul, where he emigrated with his family in 1960 to take up a post teaching physics at the American Robert College, that turned him into a writer. His first book, Strolling Through Istanbul, written with his fellow academic Hilary SumnerBoyd, was an instant success when it was published in 1972 and has never been out of print since.With the exception of Ouz, so thin that he was known as The Ghost because he barely cast a shadow, everyone in John Freely's rumbustious memoir, including the author himself, is larger than life. Bohemian Istanbul was a haven for myriad misfits who found their feet in the city. Clamorous, glamorous, eccentric, cosmopolitan and frequently outrageous, they included the 'berserker' Peter Pfeiffer, a resourceful exile with three passports; Aliye Berger, the beautiful queen of bohemian Pera; the writer James Baldwin; and, fleetingly, the future Pope John XXIII.This elegy for a lost world encapsulates the flavor of their daily life and nightly excesses. Well lubricated with lemon vodka and Hill Cocktails served by SumnerBoyd's gloomy housekeeper, Monik Depressive, the Freely crowd weave their way from the Galatasaray fish market and the taverns of iek Pasaj to the Russian restaurant Rejans, and frequently on to the Freely household on the Bosphorus hills, where a party will soon be in full swing and eggnog flowing freely. Stamboul Ghosts is illustrated with Ara Guler's poignant blackandwhite photographs, which make of Freely's beloved city an evocative stageset.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Death of a Ghost2 The Queen of Pera3 Ghosts in Exile4 The Life of the Party5Peter Pfeiffer Memorial GooseBuying Day6 Strolling Through Istanbul7 The Legless Beggar8 The Imaginary Dog9 Burial of a Bohemian10 The Elephants GraveA Tribute to John Freely by Andrew Finkel.The Final Journey, by Maureen Freely.Ara Guler and His Photographs
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