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• London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

  Peter Ackroyd's massive, energetic LONDON: A BIOGRAPHY was a huge hit when it was published a decade ago, outlining the strange and fascinating history of this sprawling, ancient city. It was also a huge book, weighing in at over 800 pages. Now Ackro ... (read full critics)

  bookreporter published on Fri, 9 Dec 2011

• Beneath the Streets of London

  Is that vast labyrinth beneath London the Eighth Wonder of the World or the Ninth Circle of Hell? I’ll admit to a bias. As a longtime commuter on the infernal Long Island Rail Road and a rider of a subway whose signs are in fluent fuhgeddaboudit, I k ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Sat, 12 Nov 2011

1 Review

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  It's a great book. It's dense though. Every time I pick it up, I fall in love with London again. But then I put it down for other things.

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• English Books
• Paperback 880 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0099422581
• ISBN-13: 9780099422587
• Publisher: Unknown
• Pub date: Sep 06, 2001
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 387 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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