To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. Along the way, Laing explores the roles rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature and...

Rick Steves takes you off-the-beaten-path of some of his favorite European cities.

"Describes a visit to London, United Kingdom, including the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, the Knightsbridge neighborhood, and various other historical and cultural attractions"--