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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Paperback edition of Ackroyd's powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London. From original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations, all the city's underworld is revealed. 'Once again, Ackroyd shares his vision of a mythical city most do not see' Euan Ferguson, "Time Out" Zusammenfassung London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations.
