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London Under, Ackroyd, Peter, Used; Very Good Book

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Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
Book Title
London Under
ISBN
9780701169916

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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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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780701169916
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201034514

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
208 Pages
Publication Name
London under
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Author
Peter Ackroyd
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
204 mm
Item Weight
303 g
Item Width
144 mm

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United Kingdom
Title_Author
Peter Ackroyd

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