Bøger udgivet af Safe Haven Books

A collection of Dickens' many writings on railways, from ghost stories to Dombey and Son, travel pieces to letters.

The town of Croydon is often invoked as a byword for the banal. But its hidden history reveals it consistently to have been at the centre of things, and leading the way: continental air travel, brutalist architecture, punk rock, black musicians from nineteenth to twenty-first century. Now, Will Noble tells Croydon's surprising, remarkable story.

The first guide to all the remarkable multiplicity of trees planted on London's streets.

London is a city of hills . . . Shooters Hill, Muswell Hill, Ludgate Hill- the names alone convey the topography. But there hasn't been a walking guideto the capital that makes a point of seeking out and threading together allits high ground, summits and fabulously panoramic views . . . Now, HillwalkingLondon provides ten routes, all around Greater London, of striking high-levelwalking. Here are seven hills of Croydon; the Sewardstone Hills north ofChingford; the former telegraph stations stretching across south-east London,as well as cherished ascents like Hampstead Heath and Richmond Hill. A basecamp for refreshments is given for every expedition. Illustrated with colourphotography and route maps throughout, it will make you see this beautifulcity in a new way.

An illustrated guide to all the glamorous department stores around the capital - over 50 - that are now no more.

The first book to explore the relationship between cricket and the natural world, from the trees, shrubs and flowers around a cricket ground to the animals, birds and insects that visit - by the author of Snow Stopped Play, The Mysterious World of the Cricket Ground in Winter.

The classic Routemaster bus last plied a London bus route in 2005, but this indestructible vehicle is still everywhere, as a wedding bus or a ghost bus, a tea room or a puppet theatre, from Bermuda to Moscow. Now, in the latest Safe Haven field guide, Harry Rosehill catalogues all the multifarious uses of an ageless transport classic.

A hundred short biographies of people who worked at the secret wartime codebreaking base of Bletchley Park, and went on in their postwar lives to all manner of remarkable achievements, from government office to composing the score for Dracula films, by the author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park.

The first London walking guide to reveal the amazing variety of the capital's trees, on a dozen walks around all parts of Greater London, of varying distances from a morning's stroll to a whole day, along streets and through parks and squares, by the author of the perennially popular London's Street Trees.

A new selection of the cricket writings of Neville Cardus.

A walking guide to the full length of the Yorkshire Coast, from Redcar to Spurn Point on the Humber, via holiday hotspots like Whitby, Scarborough and Robin Hood's Bay. OS 1: 25,000 maps trace the whole 120-mile route, along with 100 colour photographs. The text is written by a distinguished Yorkshire journalist.

An illustrated guide to the moquette fabric patterns used on London Transport Tubes, buses, trains and trams from the Thirties to the present day, published in association with the London Transport Museum, and by the acclaimed author of Underground, Overground.

Reissue with new title and afterword of travel book previously published by Penguin in 1999 as Corsairville, about the Imperial Airways flying boats in Africa.

A fully illustrated guide to the 60 best places to watch birds around London, by one of London's most experienced birders, for both the keen birdwatcher and those wanting ideas for a day or afternoon out among nature, published in association with the London Wildlife Trust.