Inside Stanfords: The World's Best Travel Bookstore

Filed under: Europe, United KingdomLondon is a dangerous city for bibliophiles. The city has a ridiculous wealth of great independent bookstores and if you're a compulsive book buyer like me, you might give your credit cards quite a workout. My first literary stop in London is always Stanfords, the legendary travel bookshop that's been patronized by everyone from Michael Palin and Bill Bryson to Ernest Shackelford and Dr. David Livingstone.

U.S. bookstores typically have small travel sections that are mostly filled with guidebooks, but in the U.K., shops feature a much wider selection of travel writing. I'm like a kid in a candy shop at Stanfords, which has three floors filled with tens of thousands of books and maps. Even the floors are covered in giant maps - the ground floor is covered with the National Geographic map of the world, the first floor with the N.G. map of the Himalayas and the basement with a giant A-Z map of central London.Continue reading Inside Stanfords: The World's Best Travel BookstoreInside Stanfords: The World's Best Travel Bookstore originally appeared on Gadling on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

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