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London Alastair Horne

London By Alastair Horne

London by Alastair Horne

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London celebrates the British capital, from its famous landmarks to atmospheric alleyways, from the Shard to London Underground's lost ghost stations, from the parks to the Thames. Presented with captions explaining the story behind each entry, London is a stunning collection of images celebrating the world's most interesting city.

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London: Global City of Commerce and Culture by Alastair Horne

When you think of London, what do you see? The Houses of Parliament? The bustle around Piccadilly Circus? Elegant Victorian streets and squares? The Tate Modern? Or even Camden Market? With London, there are so many different aspects to the city. In more than 200 striking images, London celebrates the British capital, from its famous landmarks to atmospheric alleyways, from the top of the Shard to London Underground's lost ghost stations, from the parks to the canals to the Thames. Exploring both the history and modernity of the city, the book reveals the city's legacy as a capital and a trading hub, but also looks at how the contemporary city lives and breathes as a multi-ethnic metropolis. Presented in a landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each entry, London is a stunning collection of images celebrating the world's most interesting city.

About Alastair Horne

Alastair Horne has been a regular visitor to Paris since his first trip back in 1997 as a callow twenty-five year old, when he spent more than an hour searching for the Bastille before remembering precisely why it was famous. In recent years he has made annual visits to the city to explore its many sights: its museums, galleries and, most of all, its magnificent cemeteries. After working for more than a decade at Cambridge University Press, he is now undertaking doctoral research at the British Library and Bath Spa University, exploring how mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are changing the relationship between author, text, and reader. He is also a journalist, speaker, and lecturer specialising in the publishing industry, and is currently writing a novel set in an unnamed Parisian cemetery in the early twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Content include Introduction Parklife Views from Greenwich Park Views from Hampstead Heath Battersea Park St James's Park Green Park Hyde Park and the Albert Memorial Kensington Gardens Holland Park Richmond Park Regent's Park Primrose Hill Kew Gardens Highgate Cemetery The Arts & Museums The Royal Opera House The Natural History Museum The British Museum The Albert Hall The London Palladium The Victoria & Albert Museum Tate Modern Globe Theatre Palaces & Churches Westminster Abbey St Paul's Cathedral Buckingham Palace Hampton Court Palace and its maze St James's Palace Kensington Palace Ismaeli Centre, South Kensington St Martin's in the Fields The Skyline Battersea Power Station The Shard The Lloyds Building The Cheesegrater The Walkie Talkie The Gherkin The Tower of London Houses of Parliament Nelson's Column Transport The Underground platforms and stations from the oldest at Baker Street to modern stations at Canary Wharf and Southwark London taxis, London double-decker buses Ghost stations on London Underground Mainline stations: St Pancras, King's Cross, Waterloo Streetlife & Public Spaces Piccadilly & Piccadilly Circus Trafalgar Square & Whitehall Shaftesbury Avenue Regent's Street Burlington Arcade Camden Market Pubs London's food markets - Smithfield, Billingsgate, New Covent Garden, Residential: Georgian squares - Fitzroy Square, Georgian terraces - Smith Square, Victorian terraces and squares, brutalist architecture Rivers and Canals Bridges: the lights of Albert Bridge and Battersea Bridge, commuters crossing Waterloo Bridge, Tower Bridge Georgian houses on the river at Chiswick Rowers on the Thames The Thames Barrier Warehouse apartments Canary Wharf Richmond Regent's Canal

Additional information

GOR009891104
9781782747741
1782747745
London: Global City of Commerce and Culture by Alastair Horne
Alastair Horne
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Amber Books Ltd
20190514
224
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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