Farewell to Salonica : city at the crossroads / by Leon Sciaky ; introduction by Neil Barnett.

By:

Sciaky, Leon, 1893-1958 [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : The Armchair Traveller at the bookHaus, 2016.Description: 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781909961234

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DDC classification:

949.565

Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century Salonica (now Thessaloniki in Greece) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples at the crossroads of East and West. Under Ottoman rule, the city's diverse communities - Jews, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside one another peacefully. But this tolerant society was not to last, eventually succumbing to the nationalist sentiment rampant among the peoples of the Empire. Farewell to Salonica is a fascinating and nostalgic portrait of a lost society, in which Sciaky laments the encroachment of Western 'machine civilization' on the older, more human ways of the Orient." -- Publisher's description.

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"At the turn of the twentieth century Salonica (now Thessaloniki in Greece) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples at the crossroads of East and West. Under Ottoman rule, the city's diverse communities - Jews, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside one another peacefully. But this tolerant society was not to last, eventually succumbing to the nationalist sentiment rampant among the peoples of the Empire. Farewell to Salonica is a fascinating and nostalgic portrait of a lost society, in which Sciaky laments the encroachment of Western 'machine civilization' on the older, more human ways of the Orient." -- Publisher's description.