Bradt Cambridge: Ben le Vay’s Eccentric Cambridge Guidebook
by Benedict le Vay
Ben Le Vay’s Eccentric Cambridge – Holiday tips and travel information including quirky Cambridge highlights, unusual historical sites, walks and amusing activities. This guide also features art and architecture, hidden secrets and outrageous stories about the university and its people, Grantchester, colleges and churches, boat races and punting.
Size: 115 X 186 mm
Edition: 2
Number of pages: 304
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Eccentric Cambridge
This Bradt Cambridge guidebook is your essential resource for finding the unexpected, eccentric and downright strange aspects of this world-famous city.
About this guide to eccentric Cambridge
Cambridge is a popular city for international tourists, keen to take a behind-the-scenes look at this old English university city’s people and places. Benedict le Vay reveals hidden secrets and amazing stories of the city’s architecture, scandalous stories of the most outrageous dons and, most importantly, how to punt on the River Cam without looking like a complete prat.
Contents
Introduction
1 The Eccentric Year
2 Eccentric History
3 Eccentric Legends
4 Eccentric People
5 Eccentric Colleges
6 Eccentric Churches
7 Eccentric Things to See or Do
8 Eccentric Walks
9 Out of Town
10 Eccentric Facts
11 Eccentric Living
12 Nuts and Bolts
13 Eccentric Glossary
Index
About the author
Benedict le Vay is a features editor on a leading British newspaper. He spends his spare time researching zany facts about the British and their way of life. He is also the author of Bradt’s Eccentric London and Britain from the Rails.
Reviews
‘ …..[Ben le Vay] is clearly a man worth spending time in the company of. And it’s reassuring to know that, in an age of identikit ‘anytowns’, Cambridge remains defiantly different – and just a little bit bonkers.’
Cambridgeshire Journal
‘These delightful guide books are perfect for anyone with an interest in England’s most famous university cities.’
Good Book Guide
‘Ben le Vay throws up a host of titillating tales in Eccentric Cambridge: A Practical Guide.’
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