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London Under

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Description for London Under paperback. From original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations, this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, both real and fictional, that dwell in the darkness of London - rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.

London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, both real and fictional, that dwell in the darkness - rats and eels, monsters and ghosts.

From the Anglo-Saxon graves under St Paul's, to the hydraulic device in Kensal Green cemetery which lowered bodies into the catacombs below, to the fossils uncovered when the Victoria Line was built and the gold bars within the Bank of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099287377
SKU
9780099287377
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
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 Under
Ackroyd is a knowledgeable and evocative guide to London’s different archaeological levels
Times Higher Education Supplement
As ever his research is meticulous, his scope expansive, his writing definitive. Every sentence is delivered with judicial gravity and command...Once again, Ackroyd shares his vision of a mythical city most do not see
Euan Ferguson
Time Out
While ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for London Under


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