Bath

Insight Compact Guide Bath & Surroundings

Compact Guide Bath and Surroundings This 80-page book includes a chapter detailing Bath's history and culture, 10 tours and excursions taking in sights ranging from its Roman city centre to ancient Stonehenge, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus around 150 quality photographs and 5 maps.

Cathedrals of the Flesh: My Search for the Perfect Bath

How to Take a Japanese Bath

"This book is a physical work of art-as it should be, because the Japanese bath is an aesthetic event."-Whole Earth Review

Since its first publication in 1992, this book has become a curious classic, taking a -simple (yet often incorrectly performed) activity and depicting it with a graphic, manga-style edge. In twelve drawings a young Japanese man is shown preparing, rinsing, soaking, communing, relaxing, contemplating-all an encouragement to readers to slow down, ease into the hot water, and enjoy this timeless ritual of purity and release.

Pevsner Architectural Guides Bath

This delightful book is the first comprehensive architectural guide to Bath, England's finest Georgian city. Full of new discoveries and lively descriptions of the city's notable buildings, the book follows in the great tradition of the Pevsner series. It features superb, specially taken color illustrations throughout and numerous easy-to-use walking maps. The great set-pieces of Bath-the famous Pump Room, The Circus, Royal Crescent-are embedded in a graceful urban landscape developed by a long succession of gifted local architects. The city's Roman roots are represented by the remains of its extraordinary baths, its medieval prosperity by the splendid Abbey. Exquisite villas and terraces on the surrounding hills add further variety. For all who share an interest in the buildings of Bath- from architect to historian, tourist to armchair traveler-this is an irresistible volume.

Bath (Pevensey Heritage Guides Series)

AA Leisure Guide Cotswolds: Forest of Dean & Bath (Leisure Guides)

Jane Austen in Bath: Walking Tours of the Writer's City

Jane Austen in Bath: Walking Tours of the Writer’s City is a beautifully illustrated book organized into four walking tours around the city of Bath–where she set both Northanger Abbey and Persuasion–two novels that mirrored her own experience: that of an impressionable, optimistic young girl hoping to meet the man she would marry and later, that of a mature woman disappointed in love. It was in Bath that many of Austen’s own romantic adventures and misadventures occurred, and this book artfully weaves together the story of Austen’s life there with those of her beloved characters.

This guidebook describes the places frequented by Austen and her characters. Readers can stroll along the shady, tree-lined walk where Anne Elliot met Captain Wentworth after he returned from seven years at sea, and visit the galleries that hosted the glittering balls where the impressionable young Catherine Moreland made her debut.

Bath is an exquisite, perfectly preserved Georgian town located in the stunning countryside just an hour and a half from London. It was a spa town in Austen’s day and still is. The streets, crescents, gardens, and buildings look almost exactly the same as they did then. Many of the places that she frequented are still there–visitors can still buy the traditional Sally Lunn rolls at the same bakery/caf? that Austen frequented; enter the famous Pump Rooms and Assembly Rooms where she drank the waters, gossiped, and danced; stroll the unique Georgian crescents and pleasure gardens where she enjoyed fireworks and lavish public breakfasts; and see the homes Austen and her family lived in, some of which are now open to the public.

Jane Austen in Bath is the perfect companion to discovering the vibrant and fashionable social scene of Bath during both Austen’s time and today.

Delorme Bath, Brunswick Street Map (USA City Maps)

Same level of detail as Portland Street Atlas; covers all or parts of Bath, Brunswick, Durham, Freeport, Harpswell, Phippsburgh, Topsham and West Bath. Scale 1:36,000. Map measures 18” x 24”.

London '94: With the Best City Walking Tours and Excursions To Oxford, Stratford and Bath (Gold Guides)

Bath

Bath is famous for its architecture, its 2000 years of history, and its literary and artistic connections. Bath attracts over four million visitors every year. One of few cities to be designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Combines superb photographs with a history of the city.