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The ultimate London souvenir, bursting with retro charm and featuring official A-Z map designs. The immediately recognizable London A-Z map is brought to life with bold colours and striking graphic design in this stylish souvenir. The book unfolds to reveal ten official A-Z maps of famous London areas, each accompanied by a 3-D pop-up of the area's most famous sight, including Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, St Paul's and the Houses of Parliament.

South Wales Sport covers the area to the south of the Brecon Beacons, spanning the land and sea cliffs from the River Wye on the Welsh border to Pembrokeshire in the west. The area is home to a wealth of sport climbing on a multitude of venues ranging from small inland quarries to extensive limestone sea cliffs.The climbing is easily split into four main areas - Valleys Sandstone, Gower, the inland and coastal limestone crags, and Carmarthenshire's sea cliffs. The variation in climbing on offer...

Packed with accessible local and historical information, the route of each walk is overlaid onto a stunning aerial photograph, showing walkers the landscape and features, followed by a description of each walk and information about the area. The essential walking companion for families and serious walkers alike with a variety of walks to suit all ages and abilities. Produced to a high standard whilst maintaining an affordable price of just GBP4.95. These books will appeal to families and indiv...

Great Family Trips You’ll Remember Forever At last, a travel guide for families. See the best of everything, with expert advice from mums and dads for mums and dads, giving you the confidence for an inspired trip while keeping all the family happy. With your Family has the inside knowledge for trouble-free breaks full of memories to last a lifetime. Hunt for a crazy T-Rex on the loose in Norfolk Visit an eerie, top secret nuclear bunker Find out if you can make it as an astronaut Disco...

Catch a street performance on the Royal Mile during the Edinburgh Festival. See chapter 8. Detailed maps throughout Exact prices, directions, opening hours,and other practical information Candid reviews of hotels and restaurants,plus sights, shopping, and nightlife Itineraries, walking tours, and trip-planning ideas Insider tips from local expert authors

Pocket-sized books to inspire your on-foot exploration of the best of the British Isles. Now with free eBook.Explore the best of Belfast withthis indispensably practical Insight Guides Great Breaks book. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see attractions like the Botanic Gardens, to discovering hidden gems, including Causeway Coastal Route, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will save youtime, help you plan, and enhance your Great Break in Belfast.* Practical, pocket-siz...

For the discerning traveller we offer the very best of English, Welsh and Scottish hotels. Whether you want to sample mellow whisky in the Highlands, soak up the beauty of quintessentially English Cotswold villages or experience London, we have wonderful places for you to stay: country house hotels, castles, historic coaching inns, townhouses, luxurious resorts and London hotels.

This guidebook describes 25 coastal and inland day walks covering the whole of the county of Essex, stretching from the Lea Valley in the west and the Thames in the south over to the North Sea and up to the River Stour in the north. Walks range from 4 to 18 miles and are mostly circular. Also included is a description of the Essex Way which crosses the county in 11 stages from Manor Park, on the fringes of London, to the port of Harwich - a distance of 96 miles. The walks are suitable for all ab...

The must-have collector's box set of Simon Warren's regional cycling climbs guides; including South-West England, South-East England, The Midlands, Yorkshire, Scotland, North-East England, North-West England and Wales. Comprising a total of 545 ascents from the tip of Cornwall all the way up to the highlands of Scotland, the eight region-specific volumes of Britain’s Greatest Cycling Climbs contain the most comprehensive documentation of Britain’s hills ever compiled for road cyclists. Featuri...

Brit Speak for Yanks! Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.” One would think, in a world homogenized by technology and social media, that differences between British English and American English would gradually disappear. Ask any recent traveler, though, and you’ll learn that plenty of linguistic idiosyncrasies persist, and new ones emerge all the time. Folks on both sides of the pond may be in closer touch tha...

More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His precise, scrupulously honest and unaffectedly witty observations led him to interpret animals' behaviour in a unique manner. This collection of his letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist T...