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London Underground By Design is the beautifully illustrated new book from Mark Ovenden, the acclaimed author of Great Railway Maps of the World, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Tube in 2013.Since its establishment 150 years ago as...

Discover the length and breadth of Germany with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to check out Berlin's art galleries, cruise down the Rhine Valley or go wine-tasting along the Mosel Weinstrasse, The Rough Guide...

New York: Through a Fashion Eye is an illustrated guide to one of the world's most-loved fashion cities by one of the world's most-loved fashion illustrators. Let Megan Hess take you on an adventure through New York, showing you the hottest places to...

This Central America guidebook is ideal for travellers seeking inspirational guides and planning a more extended trip. It provides interesting facts about Central America's people, history and culture and detailed coverage of the best places to see. This...

The Underground is the backbone of the city of London, a part of our identity. It's a network of shared experiences and visual memories, and most Londoners and visitors to the city will at some point have an interaction with the London Underground tube...

From petticoat duels and lucky cats to the Stiffs Express, Lord Nelson's spare nose, the Piccadilly earthquake and the Great Beer Flood of 1814, A Curious Guide to London takes you on a captivating, wildly entertaining tour of the city you think you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909544383Author Deborah Ferneyhough-SweetFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm)...

This guidebook contains in-depth route description and mapping for both the classic 11 day anti-clockwise circuit and an alternative 10 day clockwise TMB circuit. This well-signed but demanding 170km route, starting from Les Houches or Champex, is...

Discover all the foul facts about the history of one of Great Britain's Celtish nations with history's most horrible headlines: Welsh edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784776923Author Dana FacarosFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bradt Travel GuidesPublisher Bradt Travel GuidesWeight(grams) 135g

Brighton has transformed itself several times since the Middle Ages: once a small fishing village, it became the most fashionable seaside resort in the 18th century, a thriving tourist destination in the railway age and a liberal, multicultural...

Whether you want to marvel at Gardens by the Bay, trek through the jungle of Pulau Tioman or tuck into the world's best street food at Lau Pa Sat market, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Malaysia and Singapore have to...

'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' - Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314209Author Hoxton Mini PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

Diving in Indonesia is a fully comprehensive diving guidebook for exploring the most notable areas of Indonesia.A chapter is devoted to each of the following important regions in Indonesia for divers: Bali North Sulawesi Central, South and Southeast...

Whether you want to dive the Blue Hole, explore Mayan ruins, or go cave tubing, the local Fodor's travel experts in Belize are here to help! Fodor's Belize guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to...

Buckle up for the next installment in our 'Epic' series and the follow-up to Epic Bike Rides of the World. Epic Drives of the World, a beautiful hardback, showcases 50 of the greatest road trips on Earth, from classic routes in America, Australia and...

This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century.Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern Italy, labouring unstintingly during typhus, cholera and...

Suffolk, with its glorious coastline, charming villages and medieval towns, is a walker's delight. The twenty circular walks in this book vary in length from 3 to 6 miles and are enjoyable all year round. The author has divided the routes into seasons to...

From the early days of his music with Stockton's Wing to training at Ballymaloe Cookery School, food and music have been parallel lines that have kept Mike Hanrahan on track his entire life. Mike Hanrahan, cook and teacher, songwriter and...

All the mapping you need to walk the Hadrian's Wall National Trail between Bowness-on-Solway in Cumbria and Wallsend, Newcastle. Covering 135km (84 miles), this historic route takes around 10 days to hike. Suitable for beginners, it nevertheless requires...

The Burren in County Clare contains one of the densest concentrations of archaeological remains in Ireland. Its monuments illustrate the story of human activity since it began here nearly 10,000 years ago. Many people are daunted by the prospect of...

An exploration of Sardinia's incredibly rich history and culture, which stretches back to the Neolithic period. This book details everyone from the Phoenicians to the Carthaginians and Aragonese who invaded Sardinia, which is covered with some of the...

Looking for the best dog walks in Norfolk? Look no further. This book contains a collection of 20 fab routes, all hand-picked by expert walkers and tested by their even-more-expert dogs. From coast to countryside, taking in hidden gems and must-see...

'Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautiful' Sunday Telegraph Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of...

**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey.When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover...

Escape to the beautiful Greek island of Santorini for the wedding of the year... Anna has the perfect life on the island of Santorini with her gorgeous vineyard-owning boyfriend Nikos, and she travels the world for work. So why does she feel...

This guide describes ascents of 25 Lake District fells that can be climbed from Langdale and the Vale of Grasmere. Easily accessible from the popular bases of Grasmere and Ambleside, this area offers stunning scenery and fantastic walking, from the...

Day Walks on the High Weald features 20 circular routes between 6.5 and 13.9 miles (10.5km and 22.4km) in length, spread across this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the south-east of England. Local author Deirdre Huston has compiled her favourite...

Quick, easy-to-use and a perfect size to fit in your pocket. Organised by subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels and travelling around. Uses a simple system of imitated pronunciation.Book InformationISBN 9780751321531Author DKFormat PaperbackPage...

An unsurpassable, visual tour of the greatest pilgrimage sites of Europe, from North to South; East to West. Pilgrimage in Europe is currently thriving on a scale that simply could not have been envisaged just a few decades ago. Not only are greater...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Wainwright Prize In this journey across England's most forbidding and mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, exploring moorland's uniquely captivating position in our history, literature and...

Whether you want to surf in Manuel Antonio, zip-line through the Monteverde Cloud Forest, or hike around Arenal Volcano, the local Fodor's travel experts in Costa Rica are here to help! Fodor's Essential Costa Rica guidebook is packed with maps,...

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Prague: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips Explore Prague with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the city's trendiest places, and get...

Insight Guides Explore ShanghaiTravel made easy. Ask local experts.Focused travel guide featuring the very best routes and itineraries, now with free eBook and pull-out map.Discover the best of Shanghai with this unique travel guide, packed full of...

This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to the Philippines and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help...

Celebrate the heyday of passenger rail travel around Britain with this beautiful Times railway book. Take a journey back to the boom time for Britain's railways, through a unique collection of fascinating stories, photographs, posters and...

'The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics' The Independent With a new foreword from Dennis McKenna.From renowned ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna comes this surreally mind-bending adventure into the depths of the...

The Bond 11+ Verbal Reasoning Challenge Assessment Papers for 10-11 years is a new and improved edition of the Bond Verbal Reasoning Stretch Assessment Papers, which now includes new extra tricky questions, as well as fully explained answers in the...

There are many coffee table books dedicated to New York, but certainly none like this one. With New York, the photography legend Elliott Erwitt pays a monochromatic tribute to his hometown metropolis, creating a photo book that can unquestionably be...