Tourism Books

The Discovery of France
by Graham Robb
Amazon Price: £5.99
Customer Reviews:
» This is a superbly written history-cum-travelogue. Robb is known for his books on French writers (Balzac, Hugo and Rimbaud) but here he ventures into peasant France, riding on his bicycle to make the ...

Wainwright Anniversary Boxed Set Pictorial Guides to the Fells 1-7 (Wainwrigh...
by Alfred Wainwright
Amazon Price: £44.99
Customer Reviews:
» This series of books may well be on the expensive side but they are an essential purchase for anyone that enjoys walking in the Lakeland Fells.The Wainright's are rightly regarded as the pinnacle of ...

A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells - North Western Fells
by Alfred Wainwright
Amazon Price: £7.79
Customer Reviews:

The Gardens at Kew
by Allen Paterson
Amazon Price: £17.50
Customer Reviews:
» Most people probably don't pick up a book after noting the publisher, but I invariably do if it's a Frances Lincoln book. Her titles are always beautifully done, enhanced with stunning photo...

The Rough Guide to Paris - 11th Edition
by Ruth Blackmore, James McConnachie
Amazon Price: £7.79
Customer Reviews:
» This book was essential to me having a fantastic week in Paris.

Its Metro map served me particularly well and much easier to use than standing ina crowdd of 50 other tourists trying to decipher maps ...

Wainwright's TV Walks
by A. Wainwright
Amazon Price: £7.79
Customer Reviews:
» Great pictorial guide using Wainwrights original drawings for 18 walks. Taken from the BBC and Granada tv series. Accompanied by detailed but simple descriptions of what to expect during the walks. Go...

The Best of Wainwright
by Alfred Wainwright
Amazon Price: £5.99
Customer Reviews:
» This is an absolute must-have if you have any interest walking. Even if you have no interest in walking you can't fail to be taken in by the consistently detailed drawings and conversational prose. ...

French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour De France
by Tim Moore
Amazon Price: £5.99
Customer Reviews:
» Extremely funny, like all of his books. I've actually found this somewhat dangerous to read on the tube into work as I keep laughing out loud. Genius.

» didn't really get on with this at all - the c...

C'est La Folie
by Michael Wright
Amazon Price: £5.99
Customer Reviews:
» I read this book whilst on holiday in the Indre area of central France and could identify with the descriptions of villages, towns and people. I found it to be a positive take on life in rural France...

A Table in the Tarn: Living, Eating and Cooking in South-west France
by Orlando Murrin
Amazon Price: £10.50
Customer Reviews:
» This is not 'another cookbook'. It is a story of a renovation of a once pretty house into a rather lovely manoir. Beautifully written and illustrated. The book is a memory of happy times and some ...