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Item Details
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MOUNT LONDON
ASCENTS IN THE VERTICAL CITY |
| By: |
Joe Dunthorne, Bradley Garrett, Sarah Butler |
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Electronic book text |
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1908058277 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781908058270 |
| Publisher: |
PENNED IN THE MARGINS |
| Pub. date: |
28 May, 2014 |
| Description: |
An invisible mountain rises above the streets of London. At over 1,400 metres it's Britain's highest peak. This ingenious book is an account of the ascent of Mount London by writers, poets and urban cartographers, each scaling a smaller urban mountain - from Crystal Palace to Parliament Hill. Mount London is a visionary record of the vertical city. |
| Synopsis: |
Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and, at over 1,400 metres, it is Britain's highest peak? This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of Mount London by a hardened team of writers, poets and urban cartographers, each one scaling a smaller mountain within the city - from Crystal Palace (112m) to Primrose Hill (78m) - until the accumulative climb exceeds the height of Ben Nevis. The essays and stories in Mount London unpeel London's history, geography and psychogeography, reimagining the city as mountainous terrain and exploring what it's like to move through the urban landscape. Ascents of London's natural peaks are offset by expeditions to the artificial mountains of the city - the Shard (306m), the chimneys of Battersea Power Station (103m) - and the search for 'ghost hills' in the back streets of Whitechapel and Finsbury. With contributions by Helen Mort, Joe Dunthorne, Sarah Butler, Inua Ellams, Bradley Garrett and many more, Mount London is a unique and visionary record of the vertical city. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Penned in the Margins |
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Non-returnable |
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