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Hagia Sophia By W Eugene Kleinbauer et al. Scala, 2004.128pp. £14.95 ' 1

Scala's excellent guidebooks have been noted in the AJ before, in particular two volumes on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Portugal (AJ 1.8.02). This new paperback on the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul - the great Byzantine church, later a mosque, now a museum - certainly maintains their standard. It is portable enough to be consulted on the spot but has the production values of a long-term reference or souvenir, while t...

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