London A guide for curious wanderers
Book - 2023
"This richly detailed and illustrated book provides a miscellany of curiosities, historic features and quirky details to spot as you wander the city, while accompanying maps help you to navigate and explore. Whether you've always wondered why there are cattle troughs on your route to work, why bollards often look like upside down cannon barrels, or wanted to crack the code of the city's weird and wonderful street names, this book provides all the tools you need to decipher, explore and enjoy London's fascinating urban fabric."--Page 4 of cover.
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- Genres
- Travel guidebooks
Miscellanies
Guidebooks
Trivia and miscellanea - Published
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London :
Frances Lincoln Publishing
2023.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780711277557
- Introduction
- I. Stepping Through Time
- i. Laying Foundations (AD 47-1066)
- ii. Crowns and Christendom (1066-1666)
- iii. London Ascendant (early 1600s-1837)
- iv. The Imperial City (1837-1914)
- v. War and Resurgence (1914-)
- vi. Walk I: Tower Hill Station to Liverpool Street Station
- II. Crackinq the Capital's Code
- i. What's in a Name?
- ii. Deciphering Symbols
- iii. Home Is Where the Art Is
- iv. Set in Their Ways
- v. Walk II: Tottenham Court Road Station to Trafalgar Square
- III. Part of the Street Furniture
- i. Getting From A to B
- ii. At Your Convenience
- iii. It's a Sign
- iv. Walk III: London Bridge Station to Borough Station
- IV. It's Only Natural
- i. London's Rivers: Lost and Found
- ii. Flora and Fauna
- iii. Walk IV: Westminster Station to Berkeley Square
- General Index
- Index of Postcodes
- Biographies