Bradt Travel Guide Eccentric London Britain's Crazy and Curious Capital

Meet a man who listens to Tube trains from the road above with a large hearing-trumpet, the inventor who made giant ships out of ice, a chap who rides down the river in an Edwardian bath chair, the guy with the world's biggest collection of pillar boxes... These are just a few of the colorful characters to be found in Eccentric London, the fascinating follow-up to Benedict le Vay's sell-out book, Eccentric Britain. Here the London-born author revisits his childhood stomping grounds and devises district-by-district guides to everything compelling, curious, bizarre, absurd or hilarious. Plus the oddest shops, museums, jobs, pubs and people you could possibly imagine. (5 1/4 x 8 1/2, 384 pages, illustrations, maps)le Vay, Benedict is the author of 'Bradt Travel Guide Eccentric London Britain's Crazy and Curious Capital' with ISBN 9781841620411 and ISBN 1841620416.