The Palace Lady's Summerhouse

Download or read book The Palace Lady's Summerhouse written by Patricia Daunt and published by Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Istanbul's palatial old embassies to its glorious Bosphorus summerhouses, from Ottoman Paris to Ankara's Art Deco, from rainforest mansions to a mad mosque in the mountains... a diplomat's wife reveals their secret histories. This book brings together essays by Patricia Daunt written over the past 25 years for Cornucopia Magazine. It concludes with her latest article, on the magnificent ruins of Aphrodisias, newly listed as a World Heritage Site but long one of her greatest loves. The images are by internationally renowned photographers, including Fritz von der Schulenburg, Simon Upton, Cemal Emden and Jean-Marie del Moral. Foreword by John Julius Norwich.