Cover
London - The Biography
Price
NZ$28.00
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1
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Description
Vintage Books, London, 2001. Spine lightly creased and slightly faded, otherwise good secondhand copy.
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...
Format
Second hand Trade Paperback
ISBN
9780099422587
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SKU
103905