Blue Guide London

Author: Emily Barber
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1905131631
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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

Author: English Heritage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912836055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528

Book Description
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

Author: EMILY. TITHER BARBER (JUDY. BARBER, ANNABEL.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916568013
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Look Up London

Author: Katie Wignall
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1529419433
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
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 Sicily

Author: Ellen Grady
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1905131747
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Blue Guide - Paris

Author: Delia Gray-Durant
Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London
ISBN: 9780393330090
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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 New York

Author: Carol Von Pressentin Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905131938
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

The Venice Lido

Author: Robin Saikia
Publisher: Travel Monograph
ISBN: 9781905131501
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.

Travels in Transylvania

Author: Lucy Abel-Smith
Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London
ISBN: 9781905131853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Second updated and expanded edition of this well-loved visitor's handbook.

Northern Italy

Author: Paul Blanchard
Publisher: Blue Guide: Northern Italy
ISBN: 9781905131013
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.