Now completely updated and published for the first time in paperback, this is the essential manual for everyone visiting or living in London, written by someone who not only knows...
182 Alban Gate The redevelopment of Lee House is a major urban - design project which is intended to serve as the gateway to the City of London . Buildings along London Wall have been redeveloped and now provide space for housing ...
This book brings to vivid life the human trial of the capital including invasions by the Vikings, the brutal execution of Sir Thomas More, the sight of a whale swimming up the Thames and the rebuilding of St Paul's by Sir Christopher Wren, ...
Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across sixteen centuries from the days of the Romans to the Victorian
Diary entries, letters, newspaper stories, and eyewitness accounts from authors such as Tacitus, Conan Doyle, and Crisp are among the nearly two hundred short readings collected in this book about the places, people, and events that shaped ...
"Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past. [The author is] your guide to six extraordinary periods ...
A guide to London that takes you back in time. This is a fascinating and unique guide to the capital that takes the reader off the beaten track and into unexplored territory through time to six key periods in the history of London.
Collection of poems about London, organized chronologically from John Gower (14th century) to Ahren Warner (1986-)
In this epic novel Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across sixteen centuries from the days of the Romans to the Victorian engineers of Tower Bridge and the era dockland development of today.
Richard Tames describes how London has been chronicled, described, celebrated, named, and mapped over the twenty centuries of its existence to become a city treasured even by those who have...
"London can be rainy, or it can be sunny. Some Buckingham Palace guards are big, and others are little. Explore opposites through the sights of London..."--Amazon.com.
London
This guide, for all tastes and budgets, contains details of more than 120 restaurants, cafes, theatres, music venues, shops, markets, and hotels along with fold-out maps which give the reader instant orientation and help visitors to make ...
London
Get a taste of the history and culture of London. From haute cuisine to traditional greasy spoons, London: The Cookbook tells the story of this vibrant city through the food most beloved by its inhabitants.
The fog, the mud, the churning river, the clamour of church bells, and at every corner schemes of business or pleasure – this is Dickens’s London in the company of some of his most memorable characters.
They very likely ordered an evening in this authentic Tudor playhouse by booking their seats on-line, with a plastic credit card. Sam Wanamaker's Olde Tudor Experience is about as authentically Tudor as Disney World.
As ever, the development of the city's economic, political and cultural life can be read in the new buildings going up all over the capital. After the excitement and farce...
O objetivo deste livro é ajudar o visitante a encontrar os locais e hotéis mais atraentes e interessantes de Londres de uma maneira rápida e confiável. O livro apresenta uma...
It's a butterfly house—an exotic little oasis (mainly under glass roofs and with controlled humidity) where around 1,000 ... Another option, and one that's Md '¢*“h°'l'l'¢' F°' 9 b°*'“' a welcome break after the butterfly house's humid ...