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Ben le Vay's Eccentric Britain (Bradt Travel Guide)
Benedict Le Vay
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Description for Ben le Vay's Eccentric Britain (Bradt Travel Guide)
Hardcover. Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain - Holiday advice and tips including Britain's unusual sites, quirky London highlights and curiousities, odd events and activities. Also featuring eccentric highlights throughout the year, churches and historical sites, off-the-tourist-track walking routes, outrageous stories and people, uniquely British traditions. Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Bradt on Britain). Num Pages: 336 pages, 32pp colour photos & black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 538. Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Eccentric Guides). 336 pages, 32pp colour photos & black & white line drawings. A practical guide to some of Britain's most peculiar and unexpected monuments, gardens and museums. It reveals Norfolk's fascinating Mustard Museum; Devon's Gnome Reserve, home to over 1,000 of Britain's beloved garden characters; and, the fourth Earl of Dunmore's eccentric home, The Pineapple. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; WTH. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 28. Weight: 528.
A Tesco on every corner, Boden catalogues piled through the letterbox, and Center Parcs holidays - Britain has been overrun by all-pervasive corporate sameness. Or has it? Ben le Vay - expert on all things eccentric - reveals the quirky gems hidden near your home: hotter than the spice girls everywhere, Norfolk's fascinating Mustard Museum; Devon's Gnome Reserve, home to over 1,000 of Britain's beloved garden characters; or the fourth Earl of Dunmore's eccentric home, The Pineapple. Encompassing eccentric pastimes, aristocrats and bizarre last wishes, Ben le Vay's Eccentric Britain is both a humorous and entertaining read, as well as ... Read more
A Tesco on every corner, Boden catalogues piled through the letterbox, and Center Parcs holidays - Britain has been overrun by all-pervasive corporate sameness. Or has it? Ben le Vay - expert on all things eccentric - reveals the quirky gems hidden near your home: hotter than the spice girls everywhere, Norfolk's fascinating Mustard Museum; Devon's Gnome Reserve, home to over 1,000 of Britain's beloved garden characters; or the fourth Earl of Dunmore's eccentric home, The Pineapple. Encompassing eccentric pastimes, aristocrats and bizarre last wishes, Ben le Vay's Eccentric Britain is both a humorous and entertaining read, as well as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bradt Travel Guides
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
Bradt Travel Guides (Bradt on Britain)
Condition
New
Weight
542g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841623757
SKU
V9781841623757
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Benedict Le Vay
Benedict le Vay is a features editor on a leading British newspaper. He spends his spare time researching zany facts about the British and their way of life. He is also the author of Bradt's Eccentric London and Britain from the Rails.
Reviews for Ben le Vay's Eccentric Britain (Bradt Travel Guide)
'Eccentric Britain offers a delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl and the barmy baron, and gathering crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and curious customs along the way.' Northern Echo 'Anecdote, biography and fascinating snippets of information are all woven into Ben le Vay's survey of all that is weird and wonderful on ... Read more