CONTENTS COVER STORY: Rapt in Silk: The bolder face of Ottoman imperial fabrics. PROFILES: Love at First Sight: the linguist Geoffrey Lewis, by Andrew Mango. Rough journeys: the scholar-explorers George Bean and Terenee Mitford, by Barnaby Rogerson. Travel La Vie en Rose: in search of the rose harvest, by Martyn Rix. Between the Taurus and the Deep Blue Sea: Kate Clow and Jacqueline de Gier sail Turkey's eastern Mediterranean shore. ARTS: CONNOISSEUR Some Enchanted Garden: Islamic art from the Gulbenkian, by John Carswell Plus news 'of auctions and textiles fair. DANCE: Memories of Madam: Dame Ninette de Valois and the birth of Turkish ballet, by Elizabeth Meath Baker and Bernard Burrows. PHOTOGRAPHY Shots of Empire: the royal photographer Vassilaki Kargopoulo, by Philip Mansel. BOOKS: Turkish delights, Byzantine building, blue and white porcelain, the Eastern Question revisited, new fiction, walking the Lycian Way. Reviews by Alistair McAlpine, John Julius Norwich, Julian Thompson, David Barchard, Ali Erginsoyand Andrew Finkel. COOKERY: Perfect Peach: Berrin Torolsan on summer's ultimate thirst-quencher. REGULAR FEATURES TRADE SECRETS: Master of Plaster, by Berrin Torolsan. Photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg. VILLAGE VOICES by Azize Ethem. LETTER FROM ISTANBUL by Andrew Finkel.

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