Product Description

In this text, Kirsten Elliott not only narrates Bath's story through the centuries but also brings it up to date, celebrating the modern city as a vibrant place attracting visitors from all over the world. The story is illustrated by Neill Menneer's photographs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #210736 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

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What's Inside:

Over 300 facts about Bath, eight City walks with individual maps, one Bath City map, one regional map of B&NES, Somerset and Wiltshire (including Bristol) and 190 original photographs.

Plus

630 listings including shops, museums, galleries, restaurants, cafes, hotels, guest houses and pubs.

Essential travel and tourist information including emergency services and hospital numbers.

Seven seperate "Things To Do" sections.

Quizzes for all ages including unique Gorgon's Head Hunt.

Did You Know?

Bath has had three other names: Aquae Sulis (Roman), Akemancester (Mercian) & Hatte Bathe (Saxon).

Bath has appeared in novels such as Dickens's Pickwick Papers and Jane Austen's Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.

The water that rises in the hot springs (more than 1,000,000 litres per day) fell as rain on the Mendips 5000 years ago.

About the Author
Kirsten Elliott has been giving tours of Bath to visitors from all over the world since 1985. Among the tours are those she devised for Bath International Music Festival and Bath Literature Festival. She has published widely in magazines and newspapers and has written two guidebooks to Bath and its surrounding area. She also lectures on many aspects of the city's history, has broadcast talks on BBC Radio 3, and has appeared on television.

Neill Menneer has been a freelance photographer since 1980 when he won the Observer Photographic Competition. He has had several exhibitions, including, most recently, 'Portraits of the People', which formed part of the 2002 Bath International Music Festival. He has used many of his imaginative and idiosyncratic images of Bath to produce a series of postcards and calendars.

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous! A must have for Bath-aholics.
This is a beautiful coffee table book which would make a great present for anyone who adores Bath. It is full of stunning photographs of the city. I particularly love the fact that the photographs range from beautiful scenic photos to quirky pictures of gargoyles! There really is something for everyone in this book. The book covers the history of the city (especially the architecture), but the author also looks at modern Bath. This is a beautiful book and deserves to be on the bookshelf of anyone who loves the city of Bath.