London Beneath the Pavement
Title | London Beneath the Pavement PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Harrison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | London |
ISBN |
London Under
Title | London Under PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0385531516 |
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 penetrate history, and Ackroyd's book is filled with the stories unique to this underworld: the hydraulic device used to lower bodies into the catacombs in Kensal Green cemetery; the door in the plinth of the statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge that leads to a huge tunnel packed with cables for gas, water, and telephone; the sulphurous fumes on the Underground's Metropolitan Line. Highly imaginative and delightfully entertaining, London Under is Ackroyd at his best.
London Beneath the Pavement, Etc. [With Plates.].
Title | London Beneath the Pavement, Etc. [With Plates.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Michael HARRISON (Novelist.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
London beneath the pavement
Title | London beneath the pavement PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Harrison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN | 9780432066515 |
London Beneath the Pavement
Title | London Beneath the Pavement PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. Harrison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Archaeology |
ISBN |
The great world of London
Title | The great world of London PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Mayhew |
Publisher | |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Beach Beneath the Pavement 2011
Title | The Beach Beneath the Pavement 2011 PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Denning |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2011-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0956153518 |
A satirical novel of conspiracy and paranoia in London's dark corners