London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Ackr

ISBN: 0385531508

Author: Ackroyd, Peter

Condition: new

London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations. The depths below are hot, warmer than the surface, and this book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, real and fictional, that dwell in darkness-rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. When the Underground