London

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Capital of the United Kingdom. All sorts of walks. The Thames Path runs right through the city center and you can hop on the London Eye after being fooled at the ticket counter and view forward and backward on your trail.

Trails in this region

Books

Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Waiting for Sunrise
  • Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city`s preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately drawn to her, unaware of how destructive the consequences of their... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London A-Z Map & Walks
  • A-Z London Map & Walks at 1:8,629 (7.33 inches to 1 mile) from Geographers` A-Z Map Company, highlighting the Jubilee Walkway and the Princess Diana Memorial Walk, with a bus map of central London, plus on the reverse map extracts with more walks with detailed descriptions.The map uses the same basic cartography as A-Z’s range of street atlases... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Camra`s Lake District Pub Walks
  • This is a pocket-sized, traveller`s guide to some of the best walking and best pubs in the Lake District. The walks are grouped geographically around tourist hubs with plenty of accommodation, making the book ideal for a visitor to the Lakes. ”Lake District Pub Walks” also explores some of the region`s fascinating historical and literary... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • The Island House: Our Wild New Life on a Tiny Cornish Isle
  • `In the January dark, a young man walks slowly into the sea. He can`t see where he is going, but he knows the island is calling...`Mary and Patrick`s dream was to live in London, have 2.4 children, the nice house, the successful jobs. But life had other plans, and in one traumatic year that all came crashing down.Bruised and battered, Mary... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Discovering Off-Beat Walks in London
  • The busy streets of London have been traversed for centuries and many a Londoner or tourist may feel that they are familiar with all the capital has to offer. Yet the eight walks described in this volume reveal more than even the most seasoned commuter or visitor may be aware of. John Wittich and Ron Phillips lead the reader through the most... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • DK Eyewitness Great Britain
  • Discover Great Britain - a beautiful land rich in culture and history. Whether you want to go wild swimming in the Fairy Pools of Skye, take a windswept walk along the Jurassic Coast, or scale the heights of Snowdonia, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Great Britain has to offer.From the jagged peaks of the... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • River Thames & Thames Path Heron Map
  • This tourist map of the River Thames and Thames Path covers from its source, just outside Kemble in Gloucestershire, to the Thames Barrier at 1:55,000, with detailed town plans of Lechlade, Oxford, Abingdon, Wallingford, Henley-on-Thames, central Reading, Windsor and Eton, Marlow and Kingston upon Thames at 1:12,500. The Thames and Severn Canal... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Walking London`s Statues and Monuments
  • Walking London’s Statues and Monuments is Rupert Hill’s illustrated tour guide of London’s public art, presented in 13 fact-filled walks in the capital. Elegant colour-washed pen and ink illustrations bring the en-route statues and monuments to life. Each art work/site is accompanied by an insight into the history behind its creation, giving an... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • An Opinionated Guide to London Architecture
  • Following on from the success of `An Opinionated Guide to East London`, Hoxton Mini Press are developing a series of `opinionated guides` to aspects of London, each offering concise, highly-curated, insider selections alongside stunning, original photography. Two expert writers, Sujata Burman and Rosa Bertoli, have joined forces with... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Dickens`s London
  • Few novelists have written so intimately about a city in the way that Charles Dickens wrote about London. A near-photographic memory made his contact with the city indelible from a very young age and it remained his constant focus. Virginia Woolf maintained that, `we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens,` as he produces... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • DK Eyewitness Travel Guide London
  • Find your corner of London with this essential travel guide to this great city, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you there before you`ve even packed your case - step back in time at the Tower of London and the British Museum, get a bird`s eye view of London from the Shard, or relax in Hyde Park. The DK... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Rick Steves Best of Europe (Third Edition)
  • Hit Europe`s can`t-miss art, sights, and bites with Rick Steves Best of Europe!* Expert advice from Rick Steves on what`s worth your time and money* Itineraries for one to four days in the top destinations in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland* Rick`s tips for beating the crowds, skipping lines, and... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Walking Literary London
  • “Walking Literary London” is a walking guide through the lives, loves, haunts and homes of writers both historic and recent.In 25 walks ranging from Highgate in north London to Putney and Wimbledon in the south, Roger Tagholm reveals the literary links of so much of London’s landscape.Discover the history of the Peter Pan statue in Kensington... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Walking On Water
  • London`s hidden - or lost - rivers are a source of fascination. This book concentrates on seven North London rivers - the Fleet, the Walbrook, the Tyburn, the Westbourne, Counter`s Creek, Stamford Brook and the Black Ditch. The author, a professional water engineer, describes their sources and traces their individual histories, setting... Read more
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United Kingdom
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Maps

Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Cycle Tours Chilterns, Hertfordshire & Essex
  • This spiral-bound guide describes 20 wonderful bike rides in the countryside to the north and west of London. The area offers some excellent and varied cycling: from the challenges of the steep wooded escarpment of the Chilterns in the west to the gentle gradients on networks of quiet lanes in Hertfordshire and north Essex. The book contains 15... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • East London and Gonubie
  • Street plan of East London at 1:20,000 from the South African travel publishers Map Studio, with an inset providing coverage of the nearby Gonubie. Coverage extends inland to include the city’s airport. The plan shows names of districts, indicates main traffic arteries, and highlights various facilities and important buildings. No street index... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London 1945-1948
  • London in 1945-1948 in the Cassini Historical Series reproducing old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000. The four London maps cover roughly the area of the present day Greater London rather than following the format of rest of the series which is designed to correspond to the current Landranger maps. Mapping is identical... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London West 1805-1822
  • Map No. 176, London West 1805-1822, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London West 1897-1909
  • Map No. 176, London West 1897-1909, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Richmond and Ealing Past and Present
  • London boroughs of Richmond and Ealing in the Cassini Past and Present map series which covers town and cities of England and Wales and offers a unique way of tracing their history and expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s and... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London East 1805-1822
  • Map No. 177, London East 1805-1822, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London East 1897-1902
  • Map No. 177, London East 1897-1902, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London High 5 Edition Street Plan
  • The first water-resistant “Comfort Map“ with direct access to useful additional information from the InternetLondon in a scale of 1:20,000 including tourist destinations (Hampstead Heath, Olympic Park and Greenwich) presented on a practical map; inclusive of the High 5 Edition app technology for calling up additional travel information and many... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London Greater London Street Finder PAPERBACK
  • Detailed paperback street atlas covering the whole of Greater London at three different scales: 1:10,000 scale covers central London; 1:20,000 scale extends from Welwyn Garden City in the north to Gatwick Airport in the south and from Windsor in the west to Gravesend in the east; 1:63,360 scale extends from Highbury in the north to Clapham in... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London West 1920
  • Map No. 176, London West 1920, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London Historical Maps Box Set (5-map set)
  • London Historical Set of five maps in the Cassini Historical Series reproducing old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000. The set consists of the four Cassini maps showing the capital between 1805 and 1948, and has as a bonus map a reproduction of Stanfords street plan London at six inches to one mile from 1891.The four... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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