Walking London's Waterways: Great Routes for Walking, Running, Cycling Along Docks, Rivers and Canals

Gilly Cameron-Cooper

ISBN 10: 1504800559 / ISBN 13: 9781504800556

Published by Design Originals, 2016

Seller Inventory # GOR010591515

Synopsis:

New routes where paths have opened up along the Thames, the Bow Back Rivers and the Lee Valley Vital revisions, additions and updates, plus link to interactive online blog with latest news, comments and photos New photos that reveal surprising perspectives of hidden London Walking London s Waterways is a guide to more than 100 miles of off-road routes along river-banks, canal towpaths and docks. A combination of detailed route directions and travel narrative, it works as well for cyclists and runners as it does for walkers, revealing parts of London you never knew existed. The new edition is extensively updated, with more than 20 new photos that are informative in their focus on interesting aspects of waterway architecture or history. If you have an earlier edition, it needs replacing! Chapters explore rivers great and small - from the Thames and its role in London s development as a port, commercial centre and cultural capital, to tributaries of almost-rural green; ever-expanding docks to accommodate whalers and windjammers, Cunard liners and container ships; canals that evolved from polluted transport links to corridors for wildlife and pleasure boats.  Gilly Cameron Cooper s engaging text provides the ideal companion for your exploration of London s waterways, peeling back layers of trading and cultural history. Discover how a canal lock works, trade, transport and invasion through the ages, and the sometimes exotic wildlife of London s waterways. Practical information includes route maps for each chapter, distances, public transport, and a gazetteer of places of interest with website links for opening times. Contents: Introduction Themed chapters on dock, river and canals include: The Ebb & Flow of London s History; A Flight of Locks, Wharves & Warehouses, Sporting Thames (the boat race course), Rural Brooks (Folly, Dollis & Mutton), Reinventing the Landscape (of Greenwich), Old Rivers for New (and the Olympic legacy) Gazetteer of places of interest, with website links Bibliography Websites Index

About the Author: Gilly Cameron-Cooper is an all-round publishing professional - journalist, non-fiction author and editorial director - and a professional walking tour guide. She has written articles for UK and international newspapers and magazines, books for adults and children (Beatrix Potter s Lake District, Automobile Association guide books; contributor to Reader s Digest Town Tours in Britain). For the last 14 years she has operated a walking holiday business in the Greek Islands.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Walking London's Waterways: Great Routes for...
Publisher: Design Originals
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fine