This fully revised and updated second edition of the best-selling guidebook Central Cambridge is intended for all visitors to Cambridge, and for anyone with an interest in the University. Combining an accessible style with accuracy of fact and a wealth of historical detail, it can be used to accompany a walking tour around the University and colleges, or read at leisure as an authoritative introduction.
The second edition is packed with newly commissioned colour photographs by Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Shimura, as well as fresh maps and added information about the buildings and developments of recent years. Each of the book's principal sections begins at a central point and the entries are presented in an order that forms a convenient itinerary for the visitor on foot. Central attractions (both colleges and other parts of the University including museums, as well as the main churches) receive full entries, and the book also offers historical descriptions of all the outer-lying colleges, making it a comprehensive survey of the collegiate University that can be used for reference. There is an informative introduction, a full list of colleges with foundation dates, a substantial glossary and index, and a list of further reading material, all extended and updated for this edition.