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LONDON
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| By: |
Peter Ackroyd |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1856197166 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781856197168 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
5 October, 2000 |
| Pages: |
848 |
| Description: |
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so he regards this as a "biography" rather than a history. |
| Synopsis: |
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives - in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions - showing London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Chatto & Windus |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |