Britain: The Rough Guide

by David Abram

Rough Guides on their home turf -- now in a fully updated, new edition

Up-to-the-minute recommendations of the best places to stay, eat, and drink, in all budget ranges, throughout England, Scotland, and Wales are featured in this new edition. There are lively accounts of Britain's rich cultural scene, details of the great outdoors, and unrivaled coverage of every type of attraction Britain has to offer. The Rough Guide to Britain is your essential resource.

Genres: Travel

1104 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1996

About the author

David Abram is an American philosopher, cultural ecologist, and performance artist, best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues. He is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, published in 2010 and of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World, for which he received, among other awards, the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. Abram is founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE); his essays on the cultural causes and consequences of ecological disarray have appeared often in such journals as Orion, Environmental Ethics, Parabola, Tikkun, and The Ecologist, as well as in numerous anthologies.

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting guide. Especially to gain a bit of history and background information about the various places I visited.