|
A traveller's companion guide to Britain – its places, history, and culture.
For tourists, visitors, business people, and curious inhabitants alike, this guide covers all the essential background information on Britain and Northern Ireland that ordinary guidebooks cannot include. Ideal as a traveller's reference companion, for quick information on Britain, or simply for browsing.
Over 2,000 entries cover:
- tourist destinations – castles, country houses, World Heritage sites, natural features, national monuments, and more.
- historical events, movements, battles, and revolts.
- movers and shakers in British history.
- cultural and social traditions.
- all countries and unitary authorities in the UK, plus all major towns and cities.
The A–Z entries are supplemented by over a dozen feature essays on subjects ranging from the impact of the Normans to the history of the pub, chronologies highlighting social change, glossaries of special terms, tables of organizations and sites, all
interspersed with 200 memorable quotes illuminating 2,000 years of British life.
ISBN: 1-85986-336-1
Publication date: June 2000
Length: 544 pp
Size: 234 × 153 mm (61/8 × 91/4 in)
|
