London : the biography /
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| Author / Creator: | Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- |
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| Imprint: | London : Chatto & Windus, 2000. |
| Description: | xxiii, 822 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4394801 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 822 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 781-793) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1856197166 |