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London Under Book

From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London. ; ; This is a wonderful atmospheric historical imaginative oozing little study of verything 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 Paul's 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 vastness of the space a second earth " ; writes Peter Ackroyd "elicits sensations of wonder and of terror. It partakes of myth and dream in equal measure."Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    Written by author of the bestselling London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd, London Under is a powerful urban history of all that has gone on beneath the surface of our great capital, from intriguing myths to fascinating historical discoveries.

  • Blackwell

    London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Tube stations.

  • 0701169915
  • 9780701169916
  • Peter Ackroyd
  • 7 April 2011
  • Chatto & Windus
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
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