The London Compendium

Informationen zum Autor Ed Glinert Klappentext The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the length and breadth of the city to unravel its mysteries, travelling through time from the Romans' London wall to the new Olympic site at Stratford. This is London as you have never seen it before. Zusammenfassung The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. This title intends to unravel London's mysteries.

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Ed Glinert

Product details

• Authors: Ed Glinert, Glinert Ed
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.05.2012
• EAN: 9780718192044
• ISBN: 978-0-7181-9204-4
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; London, Greater London, Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Travel writing, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Street maps and city plans, Street maps & city plans