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Great Britain - An Eyewitness Travel Guide
witnesses guides are characterized by their color, which differentiates them from most guidebooks. Maps, photos and diagrams of light to the pages and give life to what can be experienced when traveling. Information on other guides can be more precise, detailed and complete, but readers who enjoy eye witness Guides do so because they are visually stimulated and excited by what they see on the pages.
Britain - Travel eyewitness guide begins with an introduction that contains maps, information about society, politics, culture and arts, and history. To whet your appetite further, the history of gardens, stately homes, heraldry and the aristocracy, rural architecture, the countryside, Britain walkers', the traditional English pub and British Food, bright colors are explained and illustrates vividly that the reader has an idea of what is essentially British.
The rest of the book is divided into sections relating primarily to London and then to the southeast of England, the West, the Midlands, the North Country, Wales and Scotland. Each section is comprehensively covered, and major cities such as Bath, Oxford, Glasgow and many, many others are given special attention. Occasionally the reader will find a piece of information, such as Beatrix Potter and the Lake District, punting on the Cam in Cambridge, the windows of the cathedral of York, with the building of Cotswold stone, the dissolution of the monasteries, the Edinburgh Festival and the Bronte sisters, used to put these things in their geographical context.
