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London Markets
by Phil Harriss
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Everyman Publishers (1999-05)
ISBN: 1860119034
EAN: 9781860119033
Dewy Decimal #: 914
Paperback: 224 pages
Edition: 2nd
SKU: N1378
Condition: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
This new guide takes the reader around Londo n''s many markets, giving opening days and times, detailed de scriptions of what the markets have to offer, what to avoid buying and how far to go with bartering. '
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent off-the-track guide
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-10-05
I have used this book extensively on several trips to London. Excellent descriptions allow you to determine what markets will be of interest... and which to avoid. Many of the smaller markets are hard to find without a guide of some sort, and this book is small enough to carry in your back pocket. If you intend to delve deeper than the crowded tourist attractions, this guide will open a window into what London is really like.
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Excellent guide to many many streets
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-11-10
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Full of information about street markets in London, not only the world famous Portobello Road or Camden Town. When I travelled to England in 2000, I was fed up with fasionable / tourist markets, and then I found this book, which took me to some other streets to spend a ideal Saturday morning in. The author knows the excitement when you stroll down the streets filled with colourful fruit and veg, clothes, bottles of shampoo, cushions and what-you-call bric-a-blac. (Shoppers and traders are there as well as pickpockets!) He says he was led to write about street trade to see the multi-cultural / multi-racial energy at Ridley Road market in East London, and this explains a lot. This book actually guide you down to the core of those traditional street trade. Maps, transport information and where-to-park suggestions --really helpful for drivers-- and some drawings, but no glossy photographs. Thin and small enough to carry about all the time.
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