Simon & Schuster - Eccentric Oxford by Benedict le Vay

[Globe Pequot Publishing] This new edition of Ben le Vay’s irrepressible and irreverent guide to one of the greatest of English cities has been updated and expanded to include even more entertaining tales. There are more civilian/non-academic eccentrics, there is more local history, and there’s a particularly fascinating bit of military history about Oxford that even many locals have never heard of. Have a pint in the superb central Oxford pub garden where Bill Clinton didn’t inhale wacky backy and TV’s Inspector Morse downed his pints. Stroll through the college quads and cloisters where founders of several US states, American revolutionaries and US Supreme Court judges studied. But best of all, learn how to punt like an English gentleman in our humorous guide to this strange method of transport! Dreaming spires, honeyed stone, cycling dons ... forget all that tourist twaddle, says Benedict le Vay. Find out the secrets the colleges don't want you to know, the inside track on