London Eh to Zed - Christopher Walters

London Eh to Zed

101 Discoveries for Canadian Visitors to London
Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2015
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-2986-5 (ISBN)
19,90 inkl. MwSt
London Eh to Zed is a lively and entertaining walking guide to seven neighbourhoods in London, England, which reveals much about our history, character, passions, and foibles.
Discover London — and Canada — in one guidebook!

Thousands of Canadians visit London, England, every year. But what their popular guidebooks always fail to mention are the over one hundred objects, monuments, and locations in the city associated with their own home and native land.

Take for example the statue of half-mad General Charles Gordon standing beside the River Thames. His capture by rebels set in motion a dramatic rescue attempt that became Canada's first overseas military mission. Then there's the world's most famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Do Canadians know she marched on syphilis in Canada after winning the vote for women in Britain? Or that a cross-eyed doctor from McGill University in Montreal became London's most notorious serial killer after Jack the Ripper? 

London Eh to Zed is a light-hearted and entertaining walking guide especially for Canadians. Exploring seven neighbourhoods in London, it uncovers 101 fun discoveries about our history, character, passions, and foibles. Along streets in St. James's, Greenwich, and elsewhere, readers will meet men and women like the doomed adventurer Sir John Franklin, the un-amused Queen Victoria, and the tennis-loving but luckless Prince Rupert, first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, who never collected any HBC Rewards.

Christopher Walters is a graduate of Western and Cambridge universities and spent ten years in London where he worked as a tour guide and public affairs officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat, and ran a newspaper for expats called Canadian Content. He now lives in Ottawa.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.7.2015
Zusatzinfo notes; Index; 50 Illustrations, color; 7 Maps
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 418 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Reiseführer Europa Großbritannien
Reiseführer Nord- / Mittelamerika Kanada
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-4597-2986-2 / 1459729862
ISBN-13 978-1-4597-2986-5 / 9781459729865
Zustand Neuware
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