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Title: HISTORIC LONDON
AN EXPLORER'S COMPANION
By: Stephen Inwood
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0230705987
ISBN 13: 9780230705982
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Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 18 April, 2008
Pages: 324
Description: There is hardly a city in the world with richer historical and cultural associations than London. This work offers an explorer's guide to London's past. It shows you London's history around you, including: stretches of Roman wall, medieval churches and Tudor houses that survived the Great Fire and monastic buildings that survived the Reformation.
Synopsis: There is hardly a city in the world with richer historical and cultural associations than London. It is a place where history has been made for thousands of years, and where it is still being made today. It is not a city frozen in time, preserved in its ancient medieval pomp but a place that has been at or near the centre of national life for a thousand years and at the forefront of international political, cultural and economic history for each of the past five centuries.Here Stephen Inwood, bestselling author of "A History of London", and a lifelong student of the city's rich and vibrant history, offers an explorer's guide to London's past. As you walk the streets of the capital, whether you live in the city or are just visiting it, Inwood will show you London's history all around you: stretches of Roman wall; medieval churches and Tudor houses that survived the Great Fire; monastic buildings that survived the Reformation; street markets first established centuries ago that survive today; Georgian streets and squares that were spared the wreckers' ball; Wren churches; Victorian terraces; and, Inns of Court that survived the Blitz.He takes you to the London of Chaucer and Shakespeare, Samuels Pepys and Johnson; Dickens and Darwin, T.S Eliot and George Orwell. It is the perfect book to have in your pocket or your bag as you go about your business in this most fascinating of cities.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Macmillan
Returns: Returnable
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