Product Description: A region steeped in fable and myth, Provence is a cultural crossroads of European history. A source of inspiration to artists, poets, and troubadours, it is now an enviable refuge for the wealthy and fashionable. Nicholas Woodsworth, who was born in Ottawa, Canada, married into a Provençal family and has lived in the region for decades...read more

Under the Ottomans, who ruled the eastern Mediterranean for 500 years, cosmopolitan life in Istanbul took a vigorous and productive form, creating a web of connection and identity that is conspicuously absent in the modern era. This title looks into the social life of a city that was once the capital of a vast and ethnically-complex empire.