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Underground London
Travels Beneath the City Streets
Stephen Smith
Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 1 inches
Illustrated - and yet there are no photos
Softbound: 393 pages
Publisher: Abacus
2005
Written by news reporter and author Stephen Smith, who goes below pavement level
in London, and allows the reader to vicariously explore burial crypts,
dug-up plague pits, sewers, excavated Roman walls, remnants of Henry VIII's tennis
courts, poncy wine cellars, secret government bunkers, the bowels of Parliament,
and forgotten corners of the Tube.
Did you know that the there is a housekeeping routine between 1:00 and 5:00 AM,
which is to clean up the human hair which is blown from the heads of
thousands and thousands of train riders every day?
One chapter describes a modern day ceremonial ritual involving the Mayor of London
holding a small schoolboy by his heels over the Thames River while the boy feverishly
beats the water's surface with a stick of bamboo, a very interesting read about London
and its history found below the surface.
Book is clean and bright with light wear to it's cover.
Order by ITEM #BKS-01-07
PRICE: $17.95
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