| Baylor Brit Lit Virtual Tours |
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| Pictured above left to right: Bobby directing traffic, Big Ben (click here to hear it), one of the Queen's Guard at Windsor Castle |
CLICK AND TRAVEL. Click on any color-coded word below.
There's nothing like seeing things for yourself. That's what these
virtual tours let you do: Walk through Hampton
Court (click
here).and smell the bread baking in the Tudor kitchens.
Hop the tube (click
here).or (click here).from Victoria
to Temple as you are told to "Mind the Gap." SeeKeats'plum
tree(click here).--a
grafted pitiful shoot of the original--and sit on the bench at
Trafalgar
Square(click here).where
Oscar Wilde used to snooze. Listen to Jimmy. Stand where
this former member of the Queen's Horse Guard tells you to stand for the
best viewing of Buckingham Palace's
Changing of the Guard (click
here).
. Then walk the Millenium Bridge to get
an Elizabethan groundling view ofThe
Globe(click here)before shop like
Bridget Jones(click here)
atHarrods.
Ride a
double-decker(click
here).to theBritish Library(click
here)to see Lewis Carroll's original
sketches of Alice, the writing desk and reading glasses of Jane Austen,
not to mention The Magna Carta. Through it all remember what Samuel
Johnson once said about this best of all cities: "He who is tired
of London, is tired of life." Breathe in the history, the literature,
and understand the wonder of your setting from the words Shakespeare put
in the mouth of a king: England, this sceptered isle, this jewel
set in a shimmering sea (Richard II ).
| Click and travel. Make a selection from any of the options listed below for further travel. |
| Life
in England Today
Sightsee on-line in this photographic whirlwind slideshow. Pick a location and--go! No passport required. |
| Literary
London and Beyond
Whether we take you to Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury or Keats' Hampstead, whether the backstreets of Dickens' London or beyond the city limits to Chaucer's Canterbury or Jane Austen's Bath, we know you will leave England the better for having trudged the in the footsteps of major British writers. |
| The
Bard's England
See Shakespeare's England as he saw it. |
| Link to |
| Links
to other U.K. Virtual Tours
Enough said. If there's a good virtual tour out there in cyberspace and we've found it, we've listed it here. |
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