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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307473783ISBN-10:307473783UPC:9780307473783Book Category:History, Travel, TransportationBook Subcategory:Europe, RailroadsBook Topic:Great Britain, HistorySize:8.00 x 5.32 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SC19VEWHDJ
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface.
There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest under St. Pauls, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. To go under London is to...Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307473783ISBN-10:307473783UPC:9780307473783Book Category:History, Travel, TransportationBook Subcategory:Europe, RailroadsBook Topic:Great Britain, HistorySize:8.00 x 5.32 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SC19VEWHDJ
PETER ACKROYD is the author of London: The Biography, Shakespeare: The Biography, Thames: The Biography, and Venice: Pure City; acclaimed biographies of T. S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Sir Thomas More; and several successful novels. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award, among others.
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