Author: Piers Letcher
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Keywords: eccentric, series, france
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1841620688
ISBN-13: 9781841620688
Want to visit the Garlic and Livestock Festival in Provence? See a homemade full-scale reproduction of the Sistine Chapel in Normandy? Follow the Truffle Trail in Périgord? Or just find out about the fascinating, madcap, and sometimes tragic lives of the hundreds of real eccentrics who have made their mark in France? Eccentric France brings travelers all this and much, much more--on and off the beaten track. Between the covers of Eccentric France readers will discover entire museums dedicated to eccentricities such as Camembert cheese and corkscrews, and fairs celebrating the virtues of edib
Author: Tom Quinn
Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd
Keywords: london, eccentric
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-06-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1847732194
ISBN-13: 9781847732194
This book focuses on London’s less conventional history.
Author: Robert Harbison
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: spaces, eccentric
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-03-17
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0262581833
ISBN-13: 9780262581837
"Eccentric Spaces . . . makes me want to rush out in every direction at once and reexamine all I have ever seen. You can hardly ask a book to do more than that." -- Anatole Broyard, New York Times "It awakens the reader to the space around him, and it is a reminder of how much we want from the world." -- Richard Todd, Atlantic Monthly Like all of Robert Harbison’s works, Eccentric Spaces is a hybrid, informed by the author’s interests in art, architecture, fiction, poetry, landscape, geography, history, and philosophy. The subject is the human imagination--and the myst
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: preachers, eccentric
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2008-02-02
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 143750728X
ISBN-13: 9781437507287
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: preachers, eccentric
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2008-02-02
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1437507298
ISBN-13: 9781437507294
Author: Benedict le Vay
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guide
Keywords: guide, travel, bradt, london, eccentric
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 1841621935
ISBN-13: 9781841621937
England’s capital is a unique yet seriously strange and secret city. Benedict le Vay reveals London’s most bizarre and macabre secrets with his novel approach, which doubles both as a thematic guide to the hidden attractions of the streets of London and a compelling insight into the citizens and culture of this historic city. Features include: *Eccentric Londoners *Eccentric shopping, pastimes and careers *Eccentric homes, gardens, and buildings
Author: Benedict le Vay
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Keywords: guide, mini, bradt, edinburgh, eccentric
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 184162098X
ISBN-13: 9781841620985
Hot on the heels of Benedict le Vay’s successful Eccentric London, this new Bradt mini guide is the essential source on all that is offbeat, bizarre and absurd in the Scottish capital. Where else would you find a pub whose roof is another pub on a different street? Or a town clock deliberately set two minutes fast? Plus, once a year Edinburgh’s famous festival attracts a stream of visitors seeking to experience extreme entertainment at its best in a packed program of events. Take a stroll down the cobbled streets previously trodden by body-snatchers and murderers, followed by a we
