UK books and maps

Berlitz: Channel Islands Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guides)

The world's best-selling pocket guides have been fully revised and updated, featuring stunning new cover designs and freshly revised page layouts. This Channel Islands Pocket Guide has clear colour-coded sections, enabling you to locate information easily. Packed with practical information and useful tips, this guide covers: local history, things to do and see, shopping, sports, children's activities, entertainment, nightlife and much more. A dedicated 'Eating Out' section provides information on where to go and what the local specialities are. The area's top 10 attractions are highlighted, allowing you to set priorities for your stay and ensure you don't miss out on the best your destination has to offer. Accommodation for all budgets is recommended, along with other practical travel tips, such as transport and currency. Beautiful colour photographs accompany the text throughout, making this guide truly a pleasure to read before, during and after your visit.

Price: £3.74

Publication: 7 Jan 2009

   

Channel Islands

Price: £29.50

Publication: 1 April 2006

   

North Brittany and Channel Islands Cruising Companion

This mouth--watering new edition of Peter Cumberlidge's best--selling cruising companion comprehensively covers the whole spectacular North Brittany coast, the Channel Islands and the attractive west side of the Cherbourg peninsula all in one splendid colourful volume. Its coverage extends from the Alderney Race to the Chenal du Four. Peter Cumberlidge conveys the full atmosphere of this magnificent cruising area. His popular companion has been completely redesigned in full colour for easy reference and updated with all the latest harbour and pilotage details, new marinas and many new restaurants. Contents: * Passages to the Channel Islands and North Brittany * The Channel Islands * Passages between North Brittany and the Channel Islands * The Bay of St Malo * Brittany Passages I -- Passages round Les Heaux * Cote de Granit Rose * Brittany Passages II -- Treguier to Morlaix * The Bay of Morlaix * Brittany Passages III -- Morlaix to L'Abervrac'h * Cote des Abers * Brittany Passages IV -- L'Abervrac'h to the Channel du Four * Harbours near the Channel du Four Included in the new edition is information on the electronic navigation, updated and larger charts, new photographs and a number of features such as the tale of the Casquets lighthouse, bisquines of St Malo and Breton whisky.

Price: £18.19

Publication: 26 Sep 2008

   

The Channel Islands

Beata Moore explores the rich heritage of British and French influences and the surprisingly varied landscapes of the Channel Islands. From Jersey, an island of opposites, where cosmopolitan city life sits easily with lazy beach holidays to the proudly different Bailiwick of Guernsey, where agriculture remains a bigger part of the island economy, and the islands of Alderney and car-free Sark and Herm. From bustling harbour towns, remote cliff paths, beautiful beaches and rural interiors, Beata Moore captures the diversity and uniqueness of this much-loved archipelago.

Price: £11.55

Publication: 7 July 2011

   

The Other British Isles: A History of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands

Their names bespeak a rich and varied past, belying their paucity of notice by historians. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important neolithic sites at Skara Brae and Maes Howe in the Orkneys wallow in anonymity next to Stonehenge. Holy Iona, island center of early Christianity; the Isle of Man, former seat of rule over the Irish Sea; Anglesey and Islay, homes of forgotten Medieval courts at Aberffraw and Loch Finlaggan - these are just a few of the more than 6,000 islands that form the archipelago known as the British Isles. Inhabited for millennia and today home to half a million people, the offshore British Isles demonstrate that Great Britain is far more than just England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This history of Britain's other islands sheds light on a fundamental but neglected aspect of the past.~Focusing on the eight islands or chains that have long supported substantial populations, it tells the stories of the Shetlands, the Orkneys, the Hebrides, the Channel Islands, the Scilly Isles and the Isles of Man and Wight. From their earliest settlement, to Roman, Norse and Norman occupation, to the struggle to maintain their unique identities in today's world, the lives of these islands are a fascinating slice of European history. A chapter is devoted to each, and maps of the islands are included. Appendices provide geographical descriptions, population statistics, political and economic profiles. A select bibliography and index are included.


Price: £38.83

Publication: March 2005