From stunning beaches and jaw-dropping monuments, to mouth-watering cuisine and friendly locals, Turkey offers the visitor a wonderful range of unmissable experiences.

• 8 authors, 27 weeks on-the-ground research, 1 oil wrestling competition, 95 top museums
• Pull-out city map
• 3D plans of iconic sights
• Comprehensive planning tools

Detailed field guide dealing exclusively with the birds of the region. It covers all species found in the Arabian Peninsula (including Socotra), Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Cyprus.
All species are illustrated on colour plates (by J Gale, M Langman and B Small), with distribution maps appearing opposite the plates, complete with notes on status and preferred habitat.

• The only comprehensive field guide to the birds in this region
• Over 820 species, including all breeding species and regular visitors
• Species accounts cover all key identification features, as well as distribution and status
• 176 colour plates by three of the world's leading bird illustrators
• Detailed maps show latest breeding, wintering and migration distributions for all species

This is a completely revised second edition. For the first time, the text and maps appear opposite the plates. There are more than 100 new species.

This only portable comprehensive field guide to the butterflies of Turkey emphasizes the identification of butterflies in their natural settings and is an essential companion for butterfly-watchers and conservationists alike.

• Over 750 color photographs of butterflies in their natural environments
• Empahasis on field identification over collection
• Display of plates to allow comparison of similar looking species
• Text that includes information on flight period, range habitats, behavior and food plants of nearly 350 species of butterflies

Ahmet Baytas grew up in Istanbul, where he graduated from the Bosphorus University in 1980 with a degree in economics. He then went on to receave his PhD in economics from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Curently, he is a professor of economics at Monclaire state University in New Jersey.
Ahmet is an avid butterflier and a past president of the North Jersey chapter of the North American Butterfly Association. He is especially interested in identification and conservation of butterflies in his native Turkey and has given many lectures and talks on the subject.

The province of Mugla is situated in Southwest Turkey: 56 species of dragonfly have been recorded for this area. This book describes the species, their habitats and locations, and includes colour photos, hand-drawn location maps and distribution maps.

Paul Hope was born in 1939 and educated at Wenlock Edge School, Birmingham University where he read biology and the University of Wales, Bangor where he read mathematics. After a varied career in banking, a commission in the army and in education, he finally settled into the career he had originally trained for, that of field research biologist.
He is a naturalist whose chief interest lies in fieldwork not only with regard to birds but also in many other branches of natural history including plants, dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies and spiders. Since he settled in South West Turkey in 1996 he has published "Walking & Birdwatching in South West Turkey with Botanical & Historical Notes" and has written several papers on a variety of natural history subjects. As a result of his work on the preservation of Important Bird Areas (I.B.A.), the wetlands of Calis has become a bird reserve and the Girdev lake area has become an official I.B.A.
After working for two years on a biodiversity project for the United Nations, where he became across a great variety of dragonflies, he decided to research the species in the easternpart of Mugla province.