John Freely

John Freely (d. 1926 –ö. 20 Nisan 2017), Amerikalı bir fizikçi, tarihçi, öğretmen ve yazardır. İstanbul, Atina, Venedik, Türkiye, Yunanistan ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ile alakalı yazdığı seyahat ve tarih kitaplarıyla bilinir. Türkçe-İngilizce edebiyat çevirmeni Maureen Freely'nin babasıdır

Yaşamı

Brooklyn, New York'ta doğdu ve İrlanda'da büyüdü. Liseyi bitirip II. Dünya Savaşı'nın son iki yılı için 17 yaşındayken ABD Donanmasına katılarak Burma ve Çin'de bir Amerikan komando birliğinde görev yaptı. Lisans eğitimini, New York New Rochelle'deki Iona Koleji (New York) ve geleneksel Amerikan Katolik koleji G.I. Bill'de tamamladı.

Eserleri

Gezi kitapları ve eserleri:

• Strolling Through Istanbul: A Guide to the City (1972; 4th ed. 1987), with Hilary Sumner-Boyd; (2009) Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Complete Guide to Greece (1974), with Maureen Freely, Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Naxos: Ariadne's Isle (1976; 2nd ed., 1980), Lycabettus Press
• Blue Guide Istanbul (1983; 2nd ed., 1987; 3rd, 1991; 4th, 1997; 5th, 2000)
• Blue Guide Boston and Cambridge (1984; 2nd ed., 1994), A & C Black Publishers Ltd
• The Companion Guide to Turkey (1984; 2nd ed., 1996), Boydell Press
• Crete (1988), Weidenfeld & Nicolson; (New ed., 1989) New Amsterdam Books
• The Western Shores of Turkey: Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts (1988), John Murray Pub Ltd; 2nd. ed., (2004), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Classical Turkey (1990; Series: Architectural Guides for Travellers), Viking
• Strolling Through Athens: Fourteen Unforgettable Walks through Europe's Oldest City (1991), Penguin; 2nd ed. (2004), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Strolling through Venice: The Definitive Walking Guidebook to 'La Serenissima' (1994, 2nd ed., 2008), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• The Redhouse Guide to the Black Sea Coast of Turkey (1996); Photographs by Anthony E. Baker, Redhouse Press
• The Redhouse Guide to the Aegean Coast of Turkey (1996), Redhouse Press
• Crete: Discovering the 'Great Island' (1998); Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 2nd ed. (2008), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• The Eastern Mediterranean Coast of Turkey (1999), Milet Publishing Ltd
• The Redhouse Guide to Western Interior of Turkey (1999), Cadogan Guides
• The Bosphorus (1999), Milet Publishing Ltd
• Turkey Around Marmara (1999), Cadogan Guides
• The Companion Guide to Istanbul and around the Marmara (2000), Companion Guides
• Galata: A Guide to Istanbul's Old Genoese Quarter Archaeology & Art Pubs (2000)
• The Greek Islands (2003), John Murray Pub Ltd
• The Companion Guide to Southern Turkey (2003), Companion Guides
• The Princes' Isles: A Guide (2005), Islander Editions/Adali Yayinlari
• The Cyclades: Discovering the Greek Islands of the Aegean (2006), I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• The Ionian Islands: Corfu, Cephalonia and Beyond (2008), I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• Istanbul: City of Two Continents (2008), with John Cleave, Didier Millet

Tarih ve kurgusal eserleri:

• Stamboul Sketches (1974; reprinted by Eland in 2014)
• Istanbul: The Imperial City (1996)
• A History of Robert College: The American College for Girls and Boğaziçi University (2000), YKY, Two volumes
• Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age (1992), with Augusto Romano Burelli, Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul (1999)
• The Lost Messiah: In Search of the Mystical Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi (2001)
• Jem Sultan: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe (2004); Harpercollins
• The Emergence of Modern Science, East and West (2004), İstanbul: Boğaziçi University
• Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul (2004), with Ahmet S. Çakmak; Cambridge University Press
• John Freely's Istanbul (2003, ill. ed. 2006), Scala Publishers
• Storm on Horseback: The Seljuk Warriors of Turkey (2008); I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• Children of Achilles: The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the Days of Troy (2009); I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II: Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire (2009); Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World (2009)
• Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012)
• The Flame of Miletus: The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How it Changed the World) (2012); I B Tauris & Co Ltd
• Light from the East: How the Science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western World (2010); I B Tauris & Co Ltd

Edebi eserleri:

• Runciman, Steven, The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (2009 reprint), Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Stafford-Deitsch, Jeremy, Kingdoms of Ruin: The Art and Architectural Splendours of Ancient Turkey (2009)
• Bradford, Ernle, The Sultan's Admiral: Barbarossa - Pirate and Empire-Builder (2009), Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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