Skyline London: A Guide to the Finest Views from the Capital's Highest Points - Couverture souple

Dale, Caroline

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845137620 ISBN 13 : 9781845137625

Editeur : Aurum, 2012

Synopsis

Until 2012 London did not have its own Empire State Building. But the completion of the Shard - the tallest building in Europe - with its public Observation Gallery opening the following year, will give both visitors and Londoners a view of the capital as unmissable and defining as that of Paris from the Eiffel Tower. But, as this indispensable new guide shows, London has always offered stunning views of itself from on high: you just need to know where to go. Sometimes the least-known reveal the most - a Sixties hotel bar, a multi-storey car park in Peckham. And because, unlike New York or Manhattan, the capital retains its natural topography and ancient street pattern, the views are mesmerizingly intricate, with sylvan hills and even an old slag heap offering prospects of glittering skyscrapers, ornate Victorian domes, and spaceship-like stadia. Here, then, are the finest views from London's high points - famous landmarks like the Monument or the London Eye, venues for an unforgettable drink, meal or party like the sushi restaurant atop the City's Heron Tower, and even Henman Hill at Wimbledon, every bit as good for the London skyline as it is for tennis.With Skyline London, you will truly see this great city for the first time.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

An all-new, awe-inspiring view of the greatest city in the world; the essential guide to London s high points and what you can see from them. If you want the best view of New York, you go up the Empire State Building; in Paris, the Eiffel Tower. From 2012 London will have the Shard, with its 72nd-floor observation deck, the tallest building in Europe. But London, as this fascinating and original guidebook shows, is already full of fabulous views from above, if you know where to go and those vistas are not of a rigid grid-pattern of streets as in New York, but the teeming intricacy of a capital city shaped by settlement and redevelopment since Roman times. From Becton Alps in East London to Henman Hill at Wimbledon s All-England Club, from Edison s Lighthouse at Leamouth to the top of Centre Point, here are fifty amazing and unexpected aerial views available to the curious visitor of the sinuous course of the Thames, the radiating arcs of railway lines, or Waterloo Station at night lit up like an antique glasshouse. Skyline maps, allowing the visitor to identify everything they can see from any of fifty elevated vantage points Comprehensive details of access, opening hours and nearby public transport Monuments, bars, restaurants, a lighthouse, cathedral and museum galleries, hills and much more A selection of jaw-dropping new aerial photography of London This guide will appeal to the foreign tourist and the long-time London resident alike, as well as offering the best because highest places for a drink, a meal, a party or even a wedding. It will truly enable you to see London in a different way.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Caroline Dale is a former Reuters and Evening Standard journalist who now works as a Blue Badge tourist guide. She lives in London.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aurum
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1845137620
• ISBN 13: 9781845137625
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144