Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain write by Benedict Le Vay. This book was released on 2011. Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 practical guide to some of Britain's most peculiar and unexpected monuments, gardens and museums. 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.
Eccentric Britain
Eccentric Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eccentric Britain write by Benedict Le Vay. This book was released on 2005. Eccentric Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.
Ben Le Vay's Eccentric London
Ben Le Vay's Eccentric London - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ben Le Vay's Eccentric London write by Benedict Le Vay. This book was released on 2012. Ben Le Vay's Eccentric London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ...meet a man who listens to tube trains from the road above with a large hearing-trumpet, the inventor who made giant ships out of ice, a chap who rides down the river in an Edwardian bath chair, the guy with the world's biggest collection of pillar boxes...These are just a few of the colourful characters to be found in Eccentric London. This is an insider's guide to the city by someone who has lived, loved, eaten, drank and worked in London for five decades. He takes you to the best and most eccentric pubs and restaurants, specialist shops (26,000 stores selling £62billion worth of stuff a year), bizarre bookshops, weird museums, least-known secret neighbourhoods where you won't find tourists, but will find the utterly odd and amazing.Marvel at the petrified pile of century-old hot cross buns at the Widow's Son pub; discover what the 'Royal Ravenmaster' does for a living; and pay a visit to Pierre Vivant's curious tree, formed from 75 sets of blinking traffic lights. Ben le Vay's Eccentric London will help you dig beneath the capital's barmy surface to reveal the barmier world beneath.
Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Oxford
Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Oxford - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Oxford write by Benedict Le Vay. This book was released on 2011. Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Oxford available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide to the quirky gems hidden across Britain and the weird and wacky things the British do, from bog snorkelling and chimney peeping, to mud marathons and cheese rolling.
Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Cambridge
Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Cambridge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Cambridge write by Benedict Le Vay. This book was released on 2011. Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Cambridge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cambridge is a popular city for international tourists, keen to take a behind-the-scenes look at this old English university city's people and places. Benedict le Vay reveals hidden secrets and amazing stories of the city's architecture, scandalous stories of the most outrageous dons and, most importantly, how to punt on the River Cam without looking like a complete prat.
