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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain takes you by the hand, leading you straight to the best attractions England, Scotland, and Wales have to offer. DK's insider travel tips and essential local information will help you discover the best of Great Britain, from the famous landmarks in the hearts of the capital cities to the day trips around the countryside. See Big Ben from the London Eye, enjoy a pint on the sidewalk outside a pub, discover the mysterious and magnificent Stonehenge, and explore fairytale castles. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain . • Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. • Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. • Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. • Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. • Area maps marked with sights. • Detailed city map of London includes street finder indexes for easy navigation. • Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. • Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain truly shows you this region as no one else can. Recommended: For a pocket guidebook to London, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 London , which is packed with dozens of top 10 lists, ensuring you make the most of your time in the city. Series Overview: For more than two decades, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have helped travelers experience the world through the history, art, architecture, and culture of their destinations. Expert travel writers and researchers provide independent editorial advice, recommendations, and reviews. With guidebooks to hundreds of places around the globe available in print and digital formats, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides show travelers how they can discover more. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: the most maps, photographs, and illustrations of any guide.

The DK Eyewitness Madrid Travel Guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Madrid has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the city's stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You'll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best markets and nightspots to great attractions for children. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide also includes in-depth coverage of all the unforgettable sights and comes complete with a free pull-out city map, clearly marked with sights from the guidebook and an easy-to-use street index. The map has detailed street views of all the key areas, plus there are transport maps and information on how to get around the city, and there's even a chart showing the distances between major sights for walkers. The DK Eyewitness Madrid Travel Guide shows you what others only tell you.

The British Library, a treasure trove of cultural heritage, serves as the nation's collective memory. Founded by visionary eighteenth-century scholars, its vast collections now encompass books, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, maps, sound recordings, newspapers, stamps, and historic documents, totaling 150 million items and growing. This remarkable archive chronicles human achievement across history. The narrative unfolds through captivating words and images, detailing the Library's creation, development, and significant holdings. Notable items include the Magna Carta, Shakespeare's first Folio, Gutenberg's Bible, and manuscripts of classics like Beowulf and Jane Eyre, alongside musical masterpieces such as Handel's Messiah. The collection features early world maps and works reflecting major religions, many richly illustrated. Recently, the Library has focused on acquiring the archives of contemporary writers, actors, and photographers. Among its unexpected artifacts are Beethoven's tuning fork, celestial and terrestrial globes, and amusing nineteenth-century advertisements for freak shows and patent medicines. This enlightening and surprising exploration mirrors the institution's essence, celebrating its role in preserving and sharing our shared history.

"Restaurants, walks, tapas, nightlife, fiestas, shopping, art, architecture, churches, hotels, parks, museums"--Cover.

Capture the essence of London with this guide. With listings on hotels and restaurants, and improved maps, it also provides practical information on where to go, what to take, how to get around, local specialities, main sight-seeing attractions and a complete area by area guide.

From the high-tech domes of the Eden Project to the Highlands of Scotland, this guide to Great Britain should prove useful. The cutaway maps and 3D models cover the countryside, cities and tourist sites of England, Scotland and Wales.

An introduction to the city, the guide locates Madrid geographically, setting it in both modern and historical context and explains how life changes throughout the year. It also features an overview of the many specialities, main sight seeing attractions and a complete area by area guide; all described with maps, photographs and detailed illustrations.

This guide takes you to the real London, with cutaways of famous buildings and information on the pick of hotels, restaurants and pubs. It aims to provide inside knowledge on how to get the most out of this eclectic city.

From the high-tech domes of the Eden Project to the Highlands of Scotland, this guide to Great Britain should prove useful. The cutaway maps and 3D models cover the countryside, cities and tourist sites of England, Scotland and Wales.

DK Eyewitness London travel guide is the ultimate companion to the the city of Olympic fever. Packed with photographs, illustrations and maps of London the guide includes in-depth coverage of London's unforgettable sights from the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace to the trendy piazza of Covent Garden unearthing the best of the city's stunning architecture, palaces and parks, west-end musicals, world-class art galleries and museums in between. You'll find 3D aerial views of London's most interesting districts, cutaways and floorplans of all the major sites, and detailed listings of the best hotels and restaurants in London for all budgets. The guide includes four 'Great Days Out' and extensive practical information including insider tips on where to find London's best shops and markets, traditional pubs and the goldmine of fun to be found for children. You'll find detailed background on everything from Kings and Queens to where to see Roman, Medieval, Elizabethan and Victorian London as well as several guided walks of varied character. Whether you're taking a thrilling 'flight' on the London Eye or gazing at the crown jewels at the Tower of London the DK Eyewitness Guide London is indispensable. Don't miss a thing on your holiday with the DK Eyewitness Guide London.