Books by Anthony Burton

Londoners will have a chance to find out just how travel around the city has changed in the last two thousand years.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain's great heroes and an engineering genius.

The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day.

The 93-mile West Highland Way is indisputably Britain's most spectacular long-distance path.

Newly researched information, good selection of illustrations, good index.

A charming and insightful exploration of the amazing architecture and engineering wonders that surround Britain's inland waterways. In Britain's Canals, two inland waterways experts and much-loved authors come together to produce the definitive word on the man-made wonders that make Britain's canals so special, so loved and enjoyed by so many. They explore features from the awe-inspiring 30-lock flight on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, to the downright delightful chocolate-box lock-keeper's cottages that line the cut of every canal, to masterpieces such as the 18-arch Pontcysyllte aqueduct, the highest aqueduct in the world, to beautiful bridges, grand company buildings, the social hubs that were, and still are, canal-side pubs, plus so much more. In contrast to many inland waterways books which are organised geographically by canal, Britain's Canals is structured thematically, with chapters on The Line (the shape of the canal itself), Locks, Lock-keeper's Cottages, Bridges, Aqueducts, Lifts and Planes, Company Buildings, Wharves, Basins and Quays and finally (and perhaps most importantly) the Canal-side Pub. Each chapter explores how these features were created and have changed through history, right through to the present, with plenty of ideas for places to visit--plus full information on how to get to them. An abundance of full-color photography throughout, both historical and modern-day, will delight readers and inspire them to explore Britain's wondrous inland waterways, whether on boat, by foot or by bike.

Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all potters, working in traditional ways, but Josiah was to revolutionise the industry.

This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines.

The Ridgeway follows one of the oldest 'green roads' in Europe.

Since it opened in 2003 Hadrian' s Wall Path has become one of Britain' s most popular long-distance paths.

Following the limestone escarpment on the Western edge of the Cotswolds, the 102 miles of the Cotswold Way take the walker through a quintessentially English landscape as varied as it is beautiful.

Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. This story is also one of invention and innovation, looking particularly at how the independent miners of Cornwall and Devon were at the forefront of the development of the steam engine that was to transform society.