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London: The Concise Biography
Peter Ackroyd
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Description for London: The Concise Biography
paperback. A biography of the city of London. It takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 199 x 46. Weight in Grams: 572.
An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London.
Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads. His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099570387
SKU
9780099570387
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Ref
99-1
About Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society ... Read more
Reviews for London: The Concise Biography
Peter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London
Independent
Peter Ackroyd was born to write the biography of London...a brilliant book
Sunday Telegraph
It would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our captial is the book about London
A N Wilson
Daily Mail
You will not find a ... Read more
Independent
Peter Ackroyd was born to write the biography of London...a brilliant book
Sunday Telegraph
It would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our captial is the book about London
A N Wilson
Daily Mail
You will not find a ... Read more