The Companion Guide to London [new Edn]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Thames; The Tower and Tower Hill; Piccadilly, Green Park and the Haymarket; Leicester Square and Soho; St James's; Mayfair and perimeter - Park Lane, Oxford Street, Regent Street; Trafalgar Square; Whitehall and the Houses of Parliament; Westminster Abbey; St James's Park to Tate Britain; Belgravia, Victoria and Pimlico; Hyde Park; Knightsbridge and South Kensington; Chelsea; Bloomsbury; St Marylebone South; St Marylebone North - Regent's Park; Covent Garden; Fleet Street and the Strand; legal London - Inns of Court - Temple to King's Cross; Bank; a circuit about the Bank; St Paul's; Liverpool Street to Blackfriars; Holborn Circus to the Guildhall; South Bank - Southwark to Lambeth; points of interest beyond; envoi; travel; museums; churches.

Pressestimmen

It is surely remarkable to write of a guidebook that is difficult to put down. But it is certainly true of this one. ECONOMIST Calls our attention to everything beautiful, historic or curious left in the heart of London. SUNDAY TIMES Has strong claims to be among the best guidebooks ever written. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Urbane, charming and supremely elegantly written, it contrives to impart lustre even to Leicester Square. HOUSE AND GARDEN That unremittingly excellent work of topography, David Piper's Companion Guide. GUARDIAN (Smallweed)