This oversize book captures, in brilliant, full color bleed illustrations, the diversity and beauty of one of the world"s most popular tourist havens. Photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand spent several months in a helicopter all over Turkey, photographing its renowned Greco-Roman ruins in Ephesus and Pergamon, dramatic mountains, and dazzling coastline that is a mecca for international yachtsmen. Also here are the stunning mosques, churches and palaces of Istanbul--once capital of the Ottoman sultans and center of one of the most powerful empires of all time.