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LONDON - THE BIOGRAPHY
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| Volume: |
Collected Edition |
| By: |
Peter Ackroyd, Simon Callow |
| Format: |
Audio |
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£48.93 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1856867935 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781856867931 |
| Publisher: |
CORNERSTONE |
| Pub. date: |
2 October, 2003 |
| Edition: |
Collected ed15 Audio items |
| Pages: |
1 |
| 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. |
| No. of pieces |
15 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Random House Audiobooks |
| Returns: |
Returnable |