Books for The Outdoorsy Type

Nairn’s Paris
Nairn’s Paris

Ian Nairn

Out of print since 1968, this is a unique guidebook from the late, great architectural writer, Ian Nairn. Illustrated with the author’s black and white snaps of the city, Nairn gives his readers an idiosyncratic and unpretentious portrait of the ‘collective masterpiece’ that is Paris.

Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier – Signed Copy
Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier – Signed Copy

Jon Day

Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. The bicycle enables us to feel a landscape, rather than just see it, and in the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city.

Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier
Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier

Jon Day

Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. The bicycle enables us to feel a landscape, rather than just see it, and in the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city.

Nairn’s Towns
Nairn’s Towns

Ian Nairn

These essays show the late, great architectural critic Ian Nairn, writing about cities and towns as a whole rather than as collections of individual buildings.

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