Main entry:

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- author.

Title & Author:

London : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.

Publication:

London : Vintage, 2001.

Description:

xxiii, 822 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:

Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first-century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink.

ISBN:

0099422581 (pbk.)
9780099422587 (pbk.)

Subject:

History.
London (England) History.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire.
England London.
England, London History.
London

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Vintage International (Firm), publisher.
Great Britain England London.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269506
Call No.: BIB 201770
Status: Available