Author: Travis Elborough
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 0711234493
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 609
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A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twenty-first century. This ebook edition, with its own distinct cover, has been optimised for the digital reader. A hyperlinked contents page makes it easy for the reader to dip in and out of the book while each 'page' is dedicated to a separate day. To further improve formatting, the illustrations from the printed edition have been omitted. We promise this does not detract from the reading experience. This ebook serves as the perfect accompaniment to the print edition. There are more than two hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of today’s finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are coronations and executions, election riots and zeppelin raids, duels, dust-ups and drunken sprees, among everyday moments like Brian Eno cycling in Kilburn or George Eliot walking on Wimbledon Common. Vividly evoking moments in the lives of Londoners in the past, providing snapshots of the city’s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, the ebook of A London Year is the perfect read for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.
Author: Yolanda Zappaterra
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 071129335X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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The London Year is a refreshingly unique take on this marvelous city, featuring the best cultural events taking place each month.
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: London County Council
Publisher:
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Category : London
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Statistics of the Administrative County of London ... together with certain statistics of the adjacent districts.
Author: Frederick Martin
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Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1738
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Author: David Gentleman
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141974885
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life, and for the past year has spent his days focused on looking afresh at the city. The resulting book of sketches, drawings and watercolours, arranged month by month, shows a year in the life of London and reveals the city that is hidden in plain view. From its surprising expanse of sky to the crushed closeness of the tube, from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead Heath, David Gentleman gives us London on a human scale. Accompanied by his thoughts on looking and drawing, whether it is what catches his eye in a certain square or selecting the media - pencil, pen and ink, watercolour - best suited to capture each of the city's various aspects, as well as his reflections on the place he has lived in for over sixty years, this is a book for all those inspired by London, art and design. David Gentleman is a watercolourist and printmaker, working in many media and scales. He has designed British stamps and coins and the platform-length mural at Charing Cross tube station, well-known to Londoners, that is blown up from his wood engravings. His studio is at the top of an early Victorian house in Camden Town between the crowded, rackety Camden Lock and the green spaces of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill.
Author: Chicago Library Club
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: London city of Lond. sch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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