Blue Guide London

Blue Guide London
Author: Emily Barber
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-08-19
Genre: 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.

The English Heritage Guide to London's Blue Plaques

The English Heritage Guide to London's Blue Plaques
Author: English Heritage
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre:
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.

Blue Guide London

Blue Guide London
Author: EMILY. TITHER BARBER (JUDY. BARBER, ANNABEL.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08-27
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781916568013

The 19th edition of this accessible, detailed guide to the great metropolis of London is an essential handbook for any traveler who wants to fully understand the existence and future challenges of this almost-megacity.

Blue Guide New York

Blue Guide New York
Author: Carol Von Pressentin Wright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre:
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.

Look Up London

Look Up London
Author: Katie Wignall
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: 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.

Blue Guide - Paris

Blue Guide - Paris
Author: Delia Gray-Durant
Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Paris (France)
ISBN: 9780393330090

A fully updated guide to the City of Light, with not-to-be-missed information and guidance on Paris's incredible variety of art and architecture, history and culture, all of which are brilliantly described in this fully updated edition. Color photographs, floor plans, maps, diagrams.

Blue Guide Sicily

Blue Guide Sicily
Author: Ellen Grady
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1905131747

Fully updated new edition of a key Blue Guide, the guide of choice for experts and independent travelers. Revised and extensively updated, Blue Guide Sicily offers an in-depth history of this historically rich destination. Ellen Grady gives a comprehensive overview of the island—from detailed analyses of cities, sights and works of art to carefully chosen suggestions of where and what to eat and where to stay. The guide is strong on history, art, archaeology, architecture, landscape, conservation and wildlife. Full-color maps, two-tone plans and black-and-white photographs.

Lived in London

Lived in London
Author: Emily Cole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Historic buildings
ISBN: 9780300148718

This text tells the stories behind 800 of London's plaques. Arranged geographically, by borough and area, the guide features new research on the people and buildings that have been commemorated.

London and Its Environs

London and Its Environs
Author: Karl Baedeker
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2017-10-18
Genre: 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.