Caique Publishing Ltd, Edinburgh, is founding publisher of Cornucopia Magazine, the acclaimed biannual magazine for connoisseurs of Turkey, launched in 1991. It began publishing books on the Turkish world in 2011, with John Henry Haynes, A Photographer and Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire 1881–1900, by Robert G Ousterhout, now reissued in a second edition with new unpublished photographs in 2016. A series of new titles are being planned for 2016–2017, ranging from John Freely’s memoirs, Istanbul Ghosts, to David Barchard’s portraits of historical figures of the 19th century, Ottoman Lives. Besides books on Turkish culture, Caique has also produced a series of beautifully illustrated books on important historic country houses in England and Scotland and their works of art.
Join Don McCullin as he reveals a world full of wonder from the pavements once trodden by Aristotle and Alexander the Great to the poignant ruins of the once powerful Roman Empire."Photography for me...
With its picturesque domes, walls of pale pink sandstone and splendid Dumfriesshire setting, Drumlanrig is one of Scotland’s most romantic castles, its story entwined with that of the country itself. Finished in 1689, its North Front is a stunning stage set of dressed stone, classical pilasters and carvings of swags, scrolls and spooky faces.
From the oasis cities of Central Asia to the vast frozen wastes of eastern Siberia, the remarkable photographs of Ergun Çağatay reflect the immensity and drama of the Turkic-speaking world and the colorful lives, beliefs, and spirit of its peoples.
Colorful, cosmopolitan, hard-drinking, often outrageous characters throng this rollicking memoir by the late John Freely, who moved with his family to Istanbul in 1960 and changed travel writing for good with his 1972 guide, Strolling Through Istanbul. Dozens of books on travel, history and science would follow.
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.
Bowhill, in the Scottish Borders was a modest Georgian villa with glorious views that grew into a huge mansion beloved of Sir Walter Scott. Its austere exterior belies the treasures within – rare Chinese wallpaper of birds and flowers, masterpieces by Claude and Canaletto and the Buccleuch collection of miniatures, second only to that of the Queen
Exploring the Anatolian frontier of the Assyrian Empire
by Timothy Matney, John MacGinnis, Dirk Wicke and Kemalettin Köroğlu
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9780956594891
Pub Date: 2017-09-25
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
232 Pages
This unique record charts the important archaeological finds over 18 years at Ziyaret Tepe in southeast Turkey – site of Tušhan, a provincial capital of the Assyrian Empire dating back to the 9th century BC. Informative, scholarly, copiously illustrated, personal and extremely readable, this groundbreaking book sets a new benchmark in the field.
The Wolfe Expedition and the Photographs of John Henry Haynes
by Benjamin Anderson and Robert G. Ousterhout
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9780956594877
Pub Date: 2016-11-17
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
PALMYRA 1885, by Benjamin Anderson and Robert G. Ousterhout, is the first published record of the five fruitful days that father of American archaeological photography, John Henry Haynes, spent in Syria’s ancient desert city, whose most important monuments were destroyed by the self-styled Islamic State in 2015.
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Caique Publishing Ltd, Edinburgh, is founding publisher of Cornucopia Magazine, the acclaimed biannual magazine for connoisseurs of Turkey, launched in 1991. It began publishing books on the Turkish world in 2011, with John Henry Haynes, A Photographer and Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire 1881–1900, by Robert G Ousterhout, now reissued in a second edition with new unpublished photographs in 2016. A series of new titles are being planned for 2016–2017, ranging from John Freely’s memoirs, Istanbul Ghosts, to David Barchard’s portraits of historical figures of the 19th century, Ottoman Lives. Besides books on Turkish culture, Caique has also produced a series of beautifully illustrated books on important historic country houses in England and Scotland and their works of art. 
