Product Description

This extended and revised edition shows Turkey at its best, from the beautiful beaches and azure seas to the glittering mosques and churches, intriguing historic quarters and colourful bazaars. Extensive coverage is given to Istanbul with the help of cutaways of ancient buildings, pictorial maps and 3-D aerial views. This award-winning guide helps you to discover the treasures of this ancient civilisation, with in-depth coverage of many archaeological sites, including the classical ruined city of Ephesus and the cliff-side troglodyte village at Uchisar. Full-colour maps, city plans, thematic tours and walks enable you to explore the capital and the regions in depth and specially chosen restaurants and hotels ensure that you have a perfect holiday.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34573 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages

Review
'A pleasurable read with ravishing photography plus maps and plans of supreme quality.' The Observer

From the Author
The most informative book you can take with you on holiday, Dorling-Kindersley’s "Eyewitness Travel Guide to Turkey" is your passport to everything that makes Turkey tick. As well as a detailed insight into an exotic Eurasian country and its history, Dorling-Kindersley’s 3-dimensional sketches and full colour original reconstructions of key sites give history and heritage a new meaning. Share local information and practical advice with an author who has lived in Turkey for 13 years.

Customer Reviews

An excellant introduction to Turkey
As an introduction to Turkey, I feel that this is the best all-round guide available. Not too heavy, visually inspiring and with honest and sensible text. Independant travellers may find Lonely Planet more useful as it is more comprehensive. This guide contains accurate and useful info on all the essential sites to be seen in Turkey.

Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness guides - Turkey
A very good value for money guide book. There are very good illustrations throughout, with the appropriate descriptive text following. The guide is easy to understand and the advantage with this guide is it works area by area of turkey, so depending on which region you are staying in, you wil know about the good places to eat, hotels, tourist attractions etc, as they are all index linked, so you can cross reference information if you need to. All in all a good purchase and I would highly recommend this if its your first visit to Turkey. Gemma watford,

Nice photos but little information
If you want to travel to Turkey and need information about areas DO NOT buy this guide. Nice photos and lots of them but very limited information about places. More a travel brouchure than a guide. Go for Lonely Planet or the Rough Guide instead and order a brouchure from an upmarket tour operator for the photos.