Secret York: An Unusual Guide (Secret Guides): A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Jonglez Secret Guides). This item is unavailable.Secret York: An Unusual Guide (Secret Guides): A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Jonglez Secret Guides)

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Secret York guide.

Let Secret York guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating York guide book and let local expert, Isobel Akerman, show you the well-hidden treasures of this beautiful city. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious visitors.

Where can you find a fully functioning windmill in the middle of a residential road? Or reach the very end of the solar system? Where can you walk in the middle of a 15,000-year-old bog, or swim in a pool once powered by fruit pastilles? Discover Europe s largest plasticbottomed lake, Betty's underground Dive Bar, the fastest rocket to ever have flown in Earth s atmosphere, the secret ceremony room of the Freemasons, and even York's most prestigious postbox.

Far from the crowds and the usual clichés, York has a plenty of undiscovered hidden treasures for people who know how to wander off the beaten track.

Secret York is an indispensable guide for those who want to really get to know York and especially for those who think they know it already.

Isobel Akerman is a writer and researcher who spent her time as a History student at York University exploring everywhere but her desk. She has worked for small charities and huge companies, and has lived in more places than she can remember the names of. Right now, she is in Cambridge after finishing yet another degree, and is on the hunt for her next adventure.