It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir? Why it's alright to spit on the High Street? How the pupils of Edinburgh High School got away with murder? Plot your path to the past with a frightful full-colour map of the city's horrible highlights
- climb up the cursed castle for tales of reckless raids & hit the High Street for a whole host of historical horrors.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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WHAT WILL YOUR EDINBURGH ENCOUNTER BE? a drink or two in the atmospheric Caf Royal Circle Bar catching your breath while admiring the views from Arthur s Seat ghost-hunting in Edinburgh s eerie underworld being king or queen for the day on the Royal Yacht Britannia some of the best vegetarian cuisine in the country at David Bann chuckling at your favourite new comedian at the Edinburgh Festival DISCOVER TWICE THE CITY IN HALF THE TIME full-colour pull-out map & detailed neighbourhood maps for easy navigationour resident author recommends the very best sights restaurants shops & barsunique itineraries & highlights help you make the most of your triplocal experts give tips on Edinburgh s top eating options the best places for traditional music & how to explore the city by bike ...

Experience all of Edinburghs attractions with this up-to-date authoritative guide packed with Insider Tips. Most holidaymakers want to have fun & feel relaxed from the moment they arrive at their holiday destination
- thats what Marco Polo Guides are all about. Discover boutique hotels authentic restaurants the citys trendiest places & night spots get tips on shopping & what to do on a tight budget as well as plenty of ideas for travel with kids. Also contains: the Perfect Day Festivals & Events Travel Tips Links Blogs Apps & more & a comprehensive index. The Scottish capital has always been vibrant & cosmopolitan without compromising its traditional Scottish heritage of kilts bagpipes folk music & whisky. It is divided into two distinct parts the Old Town & New Town which are both listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A practical pocket-sized guide MARCO POLO Edinburgh takes you on a journey through time. Take a stroll through this city of international festivals churches & cemeteries monuments & museums creepy stories & strange happenings. The Insider Tips reveal where you can drink beer made from seaweed where Edinburghs closest beach resort is situated & why the station clock is always two minutes ahead. The Best Of pages show you things you can find only in Edinburgh recommend places to go for free things to do on a rainy day & how best to relax & unwind. Find out Whats Hot in Edinburgh
- whether art cafes vintage second-hand shops or places to watch football in 3D. The City Walks chapter leads you through the citys literary past as well as to the oldest pub in Scotland
- dating from 1360. Finally the Dos & Donts point out some of the things you need to be aware of & watch out for when visiting the city. MARCO POLO Edinburgh provides comprehensive coverage of the city. To help you find your way around theres a detailed street atlas inside a useful public transport map in the backcover plus a handy pull-out map. A must-have for all travellers including those who havent bought a travel guide in the past
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The unique profile of Edinburgh was born of a marriage between nature's sculpture & man's architecture. The epicentre is Castle Rock
- a volcanic plug
- which constantly draws the eye from all parts of the city. Sloping down from it is a jagged outline of impossibly high medieval tenements lining the Royal Mile which is punctuated at the foot of the tail of glacial debris by Holyrood Palace. That Edinburgh is beautiful is not in doubt. It is a city blended in to the countryside with the Firth of Forth as the northern backdrop a necklace of hills in all other directions. The history however has been less harmonious largely due to warring with the English but also because of religious turmoil & social unrest. The vibrant capital today draws thousands of visitors not only for the historical sights but also for the annual International Festivals of the arts music & literature.

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Never before has the account of Hollywoods most influential designer been so thoroughly revealed
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In 1903 Edith Wharton was commissioned by Century Magazine to write a series of articles on Italian villas & gardens. She gathered her household together & set off with her husband her housekeeper & her small dogs on a four-month tour of Italy. Her articles were published in 1904 as Italian Villas & their Gardens. One of the first books to treat the subject of Italian garden architecture seriously it influenced a generation of garden writers & landscape architects. Nearly 100 years later photographer & writer Vivian Russell set out on her own odyssey following Edith Wharton's footsteps around Italy to photograph the best surviving gardens from her book & to tell the story of how each one was made. her lively text describes the patrons & architects who created the gardens & explores their hidden symbolic meaning. ...

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Both conservative & subversive Burkes beliefs have never been more relevant than in todays Big Society as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher statesman & founder of modern conservatism Edmund Burke is both the greatest & most under-rated political thinker of the past three-hundred years. Born in Ireland in 1729 & greatly affected by its bigotry & extremes his career constituted a lifelong struggle against the abuse of power. Amid the 18th centurys golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith Samuel Johnson & Edward Gibbon Burkes controversial mixture of conservative & subversive theories made him first a marginal figure & finally a revered theorist
- a hero of the Romantics. He warned of the effects of British rule in Ireland the loss of the American colonies & most famously he foresaw the disastrous consequences of revolution in France. This he predicted would trigger extremism terror & the atomisation of society
- a profound analysis that continues to resonate today. In this absorbing new biography Conservative MP Jesse Norman gives us Burke anew vividly depicting his dazzling intellect imagination & empathy against the rich tapestry of 18th century Europe. Burkes wisdom Norman shows applies well beyond the times of empire to the conventional democratic politics practised in Britain & America today. We cannot understand the defects of the modern world or modern politics without him.

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An epic in four movements this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series. Comparable to Pratchett or Douglas Adams the Father of Far Fetched Fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked women a dangerous detective & Darwin the educated ape. Lord Brentford has a dream. To create a Grand Exposition that will showcase The Wonders of the Worlds & encourage peace between the inhabited planets of Venus Jupiter & Earth. Ernest Rutherford has a dream. To construct a time ship powered by the large hadron collider he has built beneath the streets of London. Cameron Bell is England's greatest detective & he too has a dream. To solve the crime of the century before it takes place without blowing up any more of London's landmarks. Darwin is a monkey butler & he also has a dream. To end Man's inhumanity to Monkey & bring a little joy into the world. Lavinia Dharkstorrm has a dream of her own. Although hers is more of a nightmare. To erase Man & Monkey alike from the face of the Earth & to hasten in the End of Days. Then there is the crime-fighting superlady all those chickens from the past & the unwelcome arrival of The Antichrist. Things are looking rather grim on planet Earth. ...