Underground London - Stephen Smith - What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. Underground London by Stephen Smith covers all of those things in just under pages. Smith's book is a tour and a history of London as seen by what lies underneath the streets. Smith took a number of tours (some of which are open to the public, and some which aren't) under London/5. Author Stephen Smith begins his survey of the history of London underground with a vignette about miners - these may well be Welsh and North England coal miners, but here in London they dig for space below the city, space that can be used for utility conduits and that most massive of subterranean projects, the London Underground. With regard to the London Underground, again the truth is far /5(5).
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith. Little, Brown Book Group. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. My Book of the Month for March has to be Underground London by travel writer and BBC Newsnight correspondent Stephen Smith. It's my first Book of the Month because it was the first book I've really, really enjoyed for a long while, and I mean I could not put it down once I started reading. What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows.
Underground London by Stephen Smith. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Synopsis. What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. The touchstone volume for collectors is the lavishly illustrated and somewhat mechanically obsessed London Under London (), but Stephen Smith broadens the brief, taking in rivers, conduits.
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