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London Under by Ackroyd, Peter Hardback Book The Cheap Fast Free Post
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- Title
- London Under
- Book Title
- London Under
- ISBN
- 0701169915
- EAN
- 9780701169916
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 20110407
- Release Title
- London Under
- Artist
- Ackroyd, Peter
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- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- London under
- Item Height
- 204mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Item Width
- 144mm
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 303g
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing little study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers and gang hide-outs. The depth below is hot, much warmer than the surface and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness, real and fictional rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. There is a bronze-age trackway under the Isle of Dogs, Wren found Anglo-Saxon graves under St Pauls, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. In Kensal Green cemetery there was a hydraulic device to lower bodies into the catacombs below Welcome to the lower depths . A door in the plinth of statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge leads to a huge tunnel, packed with cables - gas, water, telephone. When the Metropolitan Line was opened in 1864 the guards asked for permission to grow beards to protect themselves against the sulphurous fumes, and called their engines by the names of tyrants - Czar, Kaiser, Mogul and even Pluto, god of the underworld. Going under London is to penetrate history, to enter a hidden world. The vastnes
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Vintage Publishing
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London under
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Hardcover
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English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2011
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Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
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204mm
Item Width
144mm
Item Weight
303g
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