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  • Edinburgh: A Traveller's Reader

    by Prof David Daiches ...
    Series series A Traveller's Companion
    Edinburgh is a city whose history is written on its face. The Old Town on its crowded rock, sloping down from the Castle to Holyroodhouse, has not significantly changed its atmosphere since the turbulent fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when riots, processions, or public executions jammed the High Street. And the very different era that followed the bloody religious wars of the seventeenth ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Londoners

    The Days and Nights of London Now--As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It

    by Craig Taylor ...
    “A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor’s patient and sympathetic hands, regular people become poets, philosophers, orators.” -- New York Times Book ReviewLondoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most ... Read more

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  • London, A Very Peculiar History

    by Jim Pipe ...
    Series Book 17 - A Very Peculiar History
    Charting the quirky past of one of the most important cities in the world, 'London, A Very Peculiar History' will challenge what you thought you knew about this great capital and blow your mind with things you most certainly didn't. From Roman roads to the congestion charge, this title takes a whistlestop tour of iconic London landmarks and eras, whilst poking its head round the corner of the back ... Read more

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  • Insufficiently Welsh

    by Griff Rhys Jones ...
    In this informal guide to Wales, Griff Rhys Jones rediscovers "the land of his aunties." Born in Cardiff but raised in Essex, Griff is returning home on a mission to explore the real Wales: the one beyond the tourist trail that exists in the deep beautiful countryside, full of hidden treasures and eccentric characters that make this country so unique. With help from a hidden hand, Griff is set a ... Read more

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  • The London City Travel Guide

    by John Hirst ...
    This eBook has been written by a local. The author has lived and worked in London for over 20 years and was born in Kent; one of the London Home Counties. His local knowledge could help enhance your trip to London; saving you time and getting you straight to some of the many great places to visit and things to do. The eBook is a short summary of things to do and places to visit; it is not a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • York (UK) Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    by Steve Davis ...
    The ancient cathedral city of York has a history that dates back to before Roman times. It is situated in Yorkshire and has some of the best preserved historical buildings and structures in Europe. York was known as Eboracum by the Romans, who founded the fortress city on the River Ouse in the year 71. York was home first to the Ninth Legion and later the Sixth. York quickly became one of the most ... Read more

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  • The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

    by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins ...
    “In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer.”Under the pseudonyms of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins set off on a walking tour of the north-west of England, reporting back on their adventures for Dickens ... Read more

    $3.88 USD

  • Offa's Dyke Path

    National Trail following the English-Welsh border

    by Mike Dunn ...
    Trace the ancient boundary of Offa's Dyke Path, a 283km (177 mile) National Trail along Britain's longest ancient monument — the 8th-century earthwork separating England and Wales. The trail unfolds through diverse border landscapes, from the dramatic Wye Gorge and Tintern Abbey near Chepstow, across the remote Black Mountains and Hergest Ridge, to the industrial heritage of the Clwydian Range and ... Read more

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  • Not Quite Lost: Travels Without A Sense of Direction

    by Roz Morris ...
    As featured on BBC Radio Devon, BBC Lincolnshire, BBC Wiltshire, BBC Berkshire, BBC Oxford and BBC BristolIn life there’s the fast lane, and then there’s the scenic route. Take your time getting there and you might meet people whose stories are as gripping as those of any famous name.In Not Quite Lost, Roz Morris celebrates the hidden dramas in the apparently ordinary. Her childhood home, with a ... Read more

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  • Wild Voices

    Journeys Through Time in the Scottish Highlands

    by Mike Cawthorne ...
    The journeys in this book are tales of adventure on foot and by canoe through some of the last wild places in Scotland. Each journey is haunted by the ghost of another writer - Neil Gunn, Iain Thomson, Rowena Farre - who has left behind the trace of his or her own experience of these isolated hills, glens, streams or lochs. Travelling in time as well as space, Mike Cawthorne gains a new ... Read more

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  • London Sketchbook: A City Observed

    by Graham Byfield, Marcus Binney ...
    The best way of discovering London is on foot or from the top of a bus. No other large cuty is more rewarding to wander around, with a wealth of interesting things to see, both grand and intimate in scale. Watercolour painter Graham Byfield set out to capture the essence of the place, and his impressions are recorded in the London Sketchbook.Britain's capital is varied and cosmopolitan. It has no ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Euro Destinations Guide

    by Daniel Hardie ...
    The Euro Destinations Guide gives European Travellers like yourself an idea of where to go and what to do while travelling or backpacking Europe and is taken from the full detailed and practical guide; Backpacker Europe – The essential guide for all backpackers.The Euro Destinations Included in this guide cover countries such as Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Hungary, Greece, ... Read more

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