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This curious history of London whisks you down the rabbit hole and into the warren of backstreets, landmarks, cemeteries, palaces, markets, museums and secret gardens of the great metropolis. Meet the cockneys, politicians, fairies, philosophers, gangsters and royalty that populate the city, their stories becoming curiouser and curiouser as layers of time and history are peeled back. Find out which tube station once housed the Elgin Marbles and what lies behind a Piccadilly doorway that helped Darwin launch his theory of evolution and caused the Swedes to wage war against Britain. Do you believe in fairies? Do you know which Leadenhall site became a Nag's Head tavern, morphing into the mighty East India Company, before taking flight as the futuristic Lloyds Building? Who named the Natural History Museum's long-tailed dinosaur Mr Whippy? Spanning above and below ground, from the outer suburbs to the inner city, and from the medieval period to the modern day, Londonopolis is a celebration of the weird and the wonderful that makes the mysterious city of London so magical.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Humanities History Regional & national history

• Pełny tytuł: Londonopolis
• Autor: Martin Latham
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 224
• EAN: 9781849941655
• ISBN: 1849941653
• ID: 02709417
• Wydawca: Pavilion Books
• Waga: 476 g
• Wymiary: 137 × 190 × 22 mm
• Data wydania: 01. September 2014

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