Stanfords
United Kingdom
Stanfords
United Kingdom
- Thames Valley - 20 Country Walks For All The Family
- An exciting new gift series of walking guides, aimed at the weekend, family walker. These small-format, portable hardback books have an attractive retro feel, with nostalgic line drawings and hand-drawn maps. Each of the 20 walks have been carefully selected to appeal to family walkers, most are circular and none are too strenuous. Each walk... Leer más
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- London`s Lost Rivers: A Walker`s Guide: Volume 2
- Tracking eleven rivers beneath London that have been culverted, placed in tunnels, or diverted into the sewer system.Below the pavements, out of sight, a network of secret rivers pulses beneath the capital`s busy pavements. The second volume of London`s Lost Rivers explores eleven more rivers that have been buried, hidden or mislaid across the... Leer más
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United Kingdom
- Railway Walks: LNER
- In ”Railway Walks: LNER”, Jeff Vinter, consultant to the BBC`s ”Railway Walks” series, provides an indispensable guide to ten carefully selected railway paths converted from lines once owned by the London and North Eastern Railway. From the quiet byways of East Anglia to the dramatic scenery of the North Yorkshire coast and the moorlands of... Leer más
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United Kingdom
- The Big Walks of London
- The Big Walks of London by John Merrill is a guidebook to the capitals major walking routes. London has an incredible variety of walks and trails, and this guidebook presents more than twenty long walks through the city, ranging from 7 to 150 miles, and includes the Thames Path, the London Loop and the Capital Ring. Each walk section is... Leer más
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United Kingdom
- Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals
- David Attenborough, Dion Leonard, Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences, from hilarious holidays with pets to journeys on which... Leer más
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- The Beatles in London Walk
- “The Beatles in London Walk” is the most literal way you can take a Magical Mystery Tour about arguably the greatest band of all time; John, Paul, George and Ringo lived in the centre of London in the sixties, at the height of Beatlemania.This guide will let you capture some of the excitement of the Beatles’ time in London, with places such as... Leer más
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- DK Eyewitness London
- Planning a trip to London? Look no further.Whether you want to tread the footsteps of kings and queens in the royal palaces, take a break from sightseeing in one of the city`s many parks, or sample the tantalizing array of street food from around the world, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that London has to... Leer más
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United Kingdom
- Freedom Pass London
- Since its creation over 40 years ago, London`s Freedom Pass concessionary travel scheme has continued to grow in popularity and there are now over 1 million registered holders. Whether a fruit picker or forager, a rambler or angler, or simply someone who enjoys the quirky charm of a local pub, Bradt`s new Freedom Pass is the perfect read to... Leer más
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United Kingdom
- Walking the Grand Union Canal from London to Birmingham
- One of England`s finest canal walks - 153 miles - from the River Thames to Gas Street Basin, Birmingham. Details of shorter route via the Paddington Arm. Can be done over 9 stages with good interlinking transport at the end of each stage. Badge and certificate available for the successful. Includes full description and maps, photos, history... Leer más
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United Kingdom
- The Groundwater Diaries
- A flight of imagination back to a time when London was green meadows and rolling hills, dotted with babbling brooks. Join Tim Bradford as he explores the lost rivers of London. Over the last hundred and fifty years, most of the tributaries of the Thames have been buried under concrete and brick. Now Tim Bradford takes us on a series of walks... Leer más
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- Spuntino: Comfort Food (New York Style)
- Hidden behind rust-coloured frontage in the bustling heart of London`s Soho, Spuntino is the epitome of New York`s vibrant restaurant scene. After bringing the bacari of Venice to the backstreets of the British capital at his critically acclaimed restaurant POLPO, Russell Norman scoured the scruffiest and quirkiest boroughs of the Big Apple to... Leer más
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- On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain`s Statues
- This is a book for people who are interested in statues... and for people who aren`t. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them. As Roger Lytollis travels Britain he encounters a man at Liverpool`s Beatles statue convinced that Rod Stewart was in the Fab Four. In Edinburgh he walks into a row... Leer más
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United Kingdom
- London`s Houses
- From the remains of the Roman amphitheatre to the soaring glass structures of the 21st century city, London offers a unique architectural experience. This revised and expanded, authoritative guide takes the reader through almost 2.000 years of architectural achievement in the capital. Each chapter contains readily accessible examples of... Leer más
Stanfords
United Kingdom
- DK Eyewitness Travel Guide London
- Whether you want to tread the footsteps of kings and queens in the royal palaces, catch a show in the vibrant West End theatre district, or sample the tantalizing array of street food from around the world, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that London has to offer.Every corner of London is brimming with personality.... Leer más