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London made us: a memoir of a shape-shifting city

By Robert , Elms

Book information

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781786892119, 9781786892126, 1786892111
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7750125 bytes)
Pages
296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, still bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, murder miles becoming estate agents' dreams, accents changing, towers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs, a small community declare itself an independent nation and animals of varying exoticism roam free through its streets; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms' home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to epoch- and world-changing events.

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