Lonely Planet - May 2013

The world's most trusted source on travel, Lonely Planet has now made its way to India. Through vivid writing and stunning colour spreads from celebrated and seasoned travellers-writers and photographers, Lonely Planet Magazine (India) inspires travellers to sample different cultures first-hand, discover new people, and learn fascinating stories about every place.

For much of the century, London's greatest contemporary observer, Charles Dickens, obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures and vices, curiosities and cruelties. In his company, the author leads us through the markets, sewers, rivers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces and chop-houses of the Victorian capital, revealing the city in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the cacophonous cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, from the many uses of a dead horse to the unimaginably grueling working lives of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads this book will view London in the same light again.

A second perennially popular collection of colour cartoon illustrations, with accompanying texts, on the endearing oddities of the British life and character.

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