Knopf Mapguide: London

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Knopf Mapguide London

This opening fold-out holds a ordinary map of London to help you visualize the 8 big districts discussed in this guide, and 4 pages of worthful information, handy tips and utile addresses.

Discover London through 8 districts and 8 maps

Westminster/ Whitehall
Covent Garden/ Soho/ Bloomsbury
City/ St Paul’s
Southwark/ Tower Bridge
Southbank/ Waterloo
Mayfair/ Marylebone
Chelsea/ South Kensington/ Belgravia
Kensington/ Notting Hill

For each district there is a double-page of addresses (restaurants — listed in ascending order of price — cafés, bars, tearooms, music venues and stores) followed by a fold-out map for the applicable area with the necessary places to see (indicated on the map by a star *). These places are by no means all that London has to offer but to us they are unmissable. The grid-referencing scheme (A B2) makes it easy for you to pinpoint addresses quickly on the map.

Transportation and hotels in London
The last fold-out comprises of a transportation map and 4 pages of practical info that include a selection of hotels.

A thematic index lists all the web sites and addresses featured in this guide.

ReviewThe Washington Post says, “The map guide lets you be inconspicuous: it’s as little and light as a novella, and it is flip-out maps could pass as a flyer to a cool club.”

“Make sure you never lose your way in a strange city. Each of the Knopf MapGuides captures it is city’s pith in a package as little as a passport wallet…”– Real Simple

“Knopf MapGuides are handy, practical and perfective for those of us who are more or less impaired when it comes to map-reading. You don’t have to search a big crackling sheet with a microscopic index for one of 10,000 dots on the map…The extraordinary quality of the books’ beauteous hues and heavy paper likewise give these $8.95 guides an evocative quality that stands apart from the glossy, garish look of most travel books.” – Marin Independent Journal

“A good, handy portable item for a quick trip” – San Francisco Chronicle

“We love Knopf’s smart new map guides.” – Travel & Leisure

Most helpful customer reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic map!
By A. W. Straub
As a first time European visitor with a 13 year old daughter towing me about, I decided to purchase no less than 8 travel books prior to going. Doing most of our travel on foot, bus, or via “the tube,” I found that my “light weight is better” tourist transformation completed with us carrying only this book, the “Travelling around Your Tube and bus map” (tfl.gov.uk) and the little guide book from the folks at “The London Pass.” Being middle aged and of little brain, and lesser eyesight, this book has easy to read, has larger than normal print on the maps, and The Tube guide handily in the back. On top of it all, it is small, weighs only 4.9 oz (138 g – sweat soaked) and contains an index with such entries as “Westminster Abbey.” The only thing that could have made it better would be to make the Tube map in one piece. This minor inconvenience was easily overlooked once the Pimms had set in.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
My favorite
By NYC Girl
I have been to London several times over the past 12 years and also lived there briefly. This book is great – it breaks out the city into neighborhoods (Mayfair, City, etc), has great unobtrusive folding maps, and also lists restaurants and sites in that particular area. The book is small but easy to read, is sturdy, and nicely produced. I recommend it to everyone who is planning on visiting the city. I think if you have this, and the “A to Zed” (which details every single street, unlike a regular guide book), you’re set.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The best map of London I’ve found
By A. Levy
This is definitely not the book to use to plan your trip to London, since the descriptions of the attractions are little more than blurbs, but this is absolutely the best map you could have. It’s compact, easy to read, and the maps have twice the detail of any other map I’ve seen. I threw out the map I got with Frommer’s guide (Frommer’s was largely useless anyway) because it only labelled the main streets. Knopf’s labels almost every street, which was a huge help when walking around the city. It’s wonderful to find the street you are currently walking down on the map instead of having to wait until you hit a major intersection to figure out where you are. If you’re going to London, get this book. You’ll be glad you did when you don’t have to fold and unfold a huge street map over and over again.

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