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Beschreibung

Take a journey through the buried city beneath London's streets.

Under London's streets lie buried rivers, Roman remains, Anglo-Saxon graves, Victorian sewers, tunnels, catacombs and railway stations. Peter Ackroyd descends through those layers to uncover the city's hidden geography and the stories attached to it.

London Under moves from ancient springs and Roman amphitheatres to the modern Underground, meeting rats, eels, ghosts and monsters along the way. It finds graves below St Paul's, the hydraulic machinery of Kensal Green cemetery, fossils revealed during construction of the Victoria Line and the Bank of England's subterranean vaults. The underground city is at once practical and imaginary. It carries water and trains, shelters bodies and secrets, and has generated centuries of fear, folklore and fascination.

For anyone who has wanted to dig deeper into the many sides and stories of London, Ackroyd reveals a second city hidden beneath our feet.

Take a journey through the buried city beneath London's streets.

Under London's streets lie buried rivers, Roman remains, Anglo-Saxon graves, Victorian sewers, tunnels, catacombs and railway stations. Peter Ackroyd descends through those layers to uncover the city's hidden geography and the stories attached to it.

London Under moves from ancient springs and Roman amphitheatres to the modern Underground, meeting rats, eels, ghosts and monsters along the way. It finds graves below St Paul's, the hydraulic machinery of Kensal Green cemetery, fossils revealed during construction of the Victoria Line and the Bank of England's subterranean vaults. The underground city is at once practical and imaginary. It carries water and trains, shelters bodies and secrets, and has generated centuries of fear, folklore and fascination.

For anyone who has wanted to dig deeper into the many sides and stories of London, Ackroyd reveals a second city hidden beneath our feet.

Über den Autor
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 202 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099287377
ISBN-10: 0099287374
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ackroyd, Peter
Hersteller: Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 205 x 134 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Ackroyd
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.04.2012
Gewicht: 0,202 kg
Artikel-ID: 106740592