- The ultimate insider's guide to Oxford for locals and experienced
travelers - Features interesting and unusual places not found in
traditional travel guides - Part of the international 111 Places series
with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide - Appeals
to both the local market (more than 151.000 people call Oxford home) and
the tourist market (around 7 million people visit Oxford every year!) -
Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs There might be
more books on Oxford than students who have attended the world's
greatest university, but there has never been one as dynamic and
exciting as 111 Places in Oxford That You Shouldn't Miss. Author Ed
Glinert has sifted through all the college histories, records and lists
of alumni; examined all the quads and cloisters of the great colleges;
explored the glorious villages hewn from honey-dripping Cotswold stone;
luxuriated in the glamorous coffee houses of High Street; imagined
society's earliest motor cars built at the Morris garages; been struck
dumb by the never-ending peel of bells at Tom Tower; relaxed at Carfax,
the very center of the universe; and tippled at each of the legendary
pubs between St Giles and Merton. This is a volume which will send
residents into paroxysms of laughter, remind students why they're there,
and warn prospective undergrads of the joys of living in one of the
world's most beautiful and cleverest cities.
