Author : Emily Barber
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1905131631
The best guide to London for the intelligent independent traveler, covering all the sights, contexts, dining, accommodations and transportation. A focus on history, art and architecture combined with excellent museums coverage have made this the best guide to London since its original release in 1918. Now fully rewritten and updated by the Blue Guides team. With extensive mapping in Blue Guides excellent new format.
Author : English Heritage
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781912836055
Blue plaques, bearing names both familiar and intriguing, can be found all across the capital. From BOB MARLEY to ALAN TURING, VIRGINIA WOOLF to VINCENT VAN GOGH, MAHATMA GANDHI to EMMELINE PANKHURST, the plaques celebrate an incredible range of London's past residents. Whether they be scientists, sports stars, artists, actors, inventors or politicians - this revised and updated English Heritage guide reveals, with wit and insight, the stories of London's most extraordinary men and women and the homes in which they lived.
Author : Carol Von Pressentin Wright
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781905131938
A guide to New York City that works for residents and visitors alike. This new edition of the essential Blue Guide takes you on a meticulous tour of the well-known, lesser-known and almost unknown sights of the city as well as being a discerning guide to where to stay and eat. Ideal for on-street use and at-home reference, the depth of coverage is second to none: this is a mini-encyclopedia of a multi-layered city. Blue Guide New York forms the basis for study for accredited NYC tour guides. With excellent detailed maps and plans.
Author : Katie Wignall
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1529419433
A refreshing guide to discovering the hidden details of London with 10 fully guided walking routes from London's leading tour guide Look Up London. Have you ever noticed London's tiniest public sculpture? Or wondered why there are strange cone-shaped structures on the fanciest historic homes? Did you know that the Tower of London used to be a zoo, or about the now defunct London railway that transported over 200,000 people to their final resting place? These are just some of the fascinating details that Blue Badge Tourist guide Katie Wignall reveals in this absorbing guide to the secrets of London hidden in plain sight. Take a journey through London's rich past with these 10 fully guided walking routes and discover a whole world of incredible history hiding above your eye-line, just waiting to be spotted. From the saucy scandals of Covent Garden to stories of power and intrigue from the City, atmospheric pubs to hidden Roman remains, London is a city bursting with captivating stories which are etched into its very architecture. So, Look Up and discover a London you have never seen before.
Author : Paul Blanchard
Publisher : Blue Guide: Northern Italy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781905131013
SPECIAL REPRINT EDITION: Blue Guide Northern Italy 2005, OF WHICH THIS IS A REPRINT, remains the classic reference source for some of the most stunning scenery and the most famous towns in the world - including, for example, Venice, Verona, Milan and Bologna - focusing on the artists who lived there and the patrons who gave them commissions.
Author : Alta Macadam
Publisher : Blue Guides Limited of London
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Rome (Italy)
ISBN : 9781905131389
The tenth edition of this popular guide to the Eternal City.
Author : Lucy Abel-Smith
Publisher : Blue Guides Limited of London
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905131853
Second updated and expanded edition of this well-loved visitor's handbook.
Author : Karl Baedeker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780266473183
Excerpt from London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers The chief object of the Handbook for London is to enable the traveller so to employ his time, his money, and his energy, that he may derive the greatest possible amount of pleasure and instruction from his visit to the greatest city in the modern world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robin Saikia
Publisher : Travel Monograph
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781905131501
A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.
Author : Erika Esau
Publisher : Blue Guides Limited
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393319477
35 illustrations, 40 maps and plans
