After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux captured...

See London's palaces, parks, great shopping and nightlife. Visit Edinburgh and Stirling. Explore Britain's castles, resorts, churches, afternoon tea, Shakespeare, the Beatles, the changing of the Guard, and royalty. See the Lake District, the cliffs of Dover, Brighton, Stonehenge, Oxford, Stratford,York, Bath, and the Tower of London. Visit Cardiff and Northern Wales

In this collection of Great Railroad Adventures, we embark on some of the most scenic trains in Great Britain and Ireland. From Edinburgh to London and Dublin to Belfast, come aboard on another great railroad adventure -- Container.

Join actor Robbie Coltrane as he shows viewers the back roads of London to Glasgow, stopping along the way to learn of some of the more interesting customs of the local people.

5 episodes from the public television series Rick Steves' Europe.

'The premise of this book is simple, or that is what it seemed when I started.' Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of twelve inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past. The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, and ends with Charles Dickens on the train that took him to his final resting place in Westminster Abbey. From the wilds of Skye and Snowdon, to...

"Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the beauty of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out, accompanied by her nine-year-old daughter, Evie, with the idea of following a river from the sea to its source. The luminously observed landscape provides both a constant and a context to their...