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The Groundwater Diaries - Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Paperback, New ed)
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The Groundwater Diaries - Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London (Paperback, New ed)
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Loot Price R410
Discovery Miles 4 100
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A flight of imagination back to a time when London was green
meadows and rolling hills, dotted with babbling brooks. Join Tim
Bradford as he explores the lost rivers of London. Over the last
hundred and fifty years, most of the tributaries of the Thames have
been buried under concrete and brick. Now Tim Bradford takes us on
a series of walks along the routes of these forgotten rivers and
shows us the oddities and delights that can be found along the way.
He finds the chi in the Ching, explores the links between London's
football ground and freemasons, rediscovers the unbearable
shiteness of being (in South London), enjoys the punk heritage of
the Westbourne, and, of course, learns how to special-brew dowse.
Here, then, is all of London life, but from a very different point
of view. With a cast that includes the Viking superhero Hammer
Smith, a jellied-eel fixated William Morris, a coprophiliac Samuel
Johnson, Deep Purple and the Glaswegian deer of Richmond Park, and
hundreds of cartoons, drawings and maps, 'The Groundwater Diaries'
is a vastly entertaining (and sometimes frankly odd) tour through
not-so-familiar terrain.
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