HOW TO USE THIS ROUGH GUIDE eBOOK
This Rough Guide toLondon is one of a new generation of informative and easy-to-usetravel-guide eBooks that guarantees you make the most of your trip. Anessential tool for pre-trip planning, it also makes a great travel companionwhen youre on the road.
From the fills you in on the historyof London, interesting books and provides a handy glossary.
Detailed area maps feature in the guide chaptersand are also listed in the , accessible from the table of contents. Depending on yourhardware, you can double-tap on the maps to see larger-scale versions, orselect different scales. There are also thumbnails below more detailed maps in these cases, you can opt to zoom left/top or zoom right/bottom orview the full map. The screen-lock function on your device is recommendedwhen viewing enlarged maps. Make sure you have the latest software updates,too.
Throughout the guide, weve flagged up ourfavourite places - a perfectly sited hotel, an atmospheric caf, a specialrestaurant - with the author pick icon . You can selectyour own favourites and create a personalized itinerary by bookmarking thesights, venues and activities that are of interest, giving you the quickestpossible access to everything youll need for your time away.
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Acknowledgements
Samantha Cook Thanks to Rob, fab co-author,friend and London neighbour; to editor Alice Park, who, as ever, made the wholeeditorial process a pleasure and who flew the flag for South London with gusto and to Ed Wright, cartographer extraordinaire, for his excellent work on themaps. Above all, thanks to Greg Ward, for everything.
Readers updates
Thanks to all the readers who have taken the time to write in with commentsand suggestions (and apologies if weve inadvertently omitted or misspeltanyones name):
Ali Bell; Ingmar Hemsen; Ed Hutchings.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Rob Humphreys has lived in London for over 20 years. He has travelled extensively inScotland and central Europe writing books for Rough Guides. He recentlyqualified as a City of London Tour Guide and spends his spare timedirecting shows on the Puppet Theatre Barge.
Samantha Cook (samanthacookeditorwriter.weebly.com) was born in London and has livedin the capital all her life. A freelance writer and editor, she haswritten many Rough Guides, including travel guides to the USA; NewOrleans; Kent, Sussex and Surrey; the Best Places to Stay in Britain ona Budget, and Vintage London. She also wrote the Rough Guide to ChickFlicks and contributed to a number of Rough Guides film titles.
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