Curiocity
Subtitle: in pursuit of London
By: Henry Eliot & Matt Lloyd-Rose
Contributors: Eliot, Henry, author
Publisher: Particular Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781846148675
Subjects: Guidebooks; Description and travel; History
Description: Curiocity is the most beautiful and unusual guidebook ever written about London. The authors reimagine the city in twenty-six distinct ways, one for each letter of the alphabet, considering how London might look from a child's perspective or mapping the airspace above the city. At the heart of each chapter is an original, hand-drawn map from artists including Chris Riddell and Steven Appleby, supplemented by countless London voices from Monica Ali to Philip Pullman to Shami Chakrabarti. With practical and highly-unusual itineraries, the authors explore every dimension of London, visiting nuclear bunkers, talking ATMs and Japanese Monkey Fish along the way.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.