Insight Guides: London Step By Step (Insight Step by Step)

Step-by-Step London reveals this iconic capital through a selection of clearly laid-out walks and tours, complemented by beautiful, full-color pictures, an authoritative narrative voice, and a wealth of practical information, all in a compact package.
The guide starts with Recommended Tours, suggesting the book’s best tours for foodies, families, and art buffs, among others.
In the Overview, an engaging introduction reveals essential background information on London’s culture, geography, and lifestyle, plus the lowdown on food, drink, shopping, entertainment, and local history. This provides all the background information needed to set the walks and tours in context.
The Walks and Tours section features 20 irresistible self-guided routes, from the traditional big royal sights, and the attractions of the National Galleries, Covent Garden and Soho, to the historic City of London and the vibrant South Bank, with trips further afield to leafy Hampstead and maritime Greenwich. All show step by step how to get the most out of the destination, with something for every budget, taste and trip length. Each of the tours has a clear, easy-to-follow map, hand-picked places to eat and drink en route, great insider tips and informative feature boxes. All this makes it simple for the reader to find the perfect tour for the time they have to spare.
The final section of the book is the Directory, incorporating a user-friendly, fact-packed A to Z of practical information, plus select hotel, restaurant and nightlife listings, which will lead the reader to the best that London has to offer.
 

Michael Macaroon is a writer specializing in travel and the arts. He lives in London, where he favors traveling by double-decker bus, spends his writer’s fees in the bookshops of Charing Cross Road, and enjoys indulging in the excellent curry houses south of the river. He is the author of numerous other books, including several guides for Insight and Berlitz.