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This pocket history aims to bring London's past alive to the traveller, to reveal the city's hidden treasures and forgotton places and to guide the reader to the sites that can still be seen and enjoyed. The book gives the discerning visitor a full and comprehensive background to the capital's past and covers the period from London's first beginnings up to the present day - from "Londinium" to the development of Docklands. London has always been an international city, about which visitors from all over the world have often recorded their impressions. The author has drawn extensively on these commentaries for this book.
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Author Richard Tames provides a lively comprehensive account of the [UK] capital's 2000 year history. --The Daily Telegraph
...recommended for both would-be visitors and armchair travellers alike: It provides a historical background to London and condenses 2000 years of history into a lively, readable format which will prove particularly inviting for history buffs who want to have the book in hand while visiting parks, museums and historical sites around London. --The Midwest Book Review
...dip into Richard Tames's literary, lyrical A Traveller's History of London. --The Sunday Telegraph
...the quirky nature of Tames's information and the sheer depth of research is a total joy. --Westminster & Pimlico News
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...recommended for both would-be visitors and armchair travellers alike: It provides a historical background to London and condenses 2000 years of history into a lively, readable format which will prove particularly inviting for history buffs who want to have the book in hand while visiting parks, museums and historical sites around London. --The Midwest Book Review
...dip into Richard Tames's literary, lyrical A Traveller's History of London. --The Sunday Telegraph
...the quirky nature of Tames's information and the sheer depth of research is a total joy. --Westminster & Pimlico News
Richard Tames read history at Cambridge and took his Master's degree at the University of London, where he worked for over 15 years and was three times a Teacher Fellow. He now lectures for the London programmes of the American University and is a London Tourist Board registered 'Blue Badge' Guide. He is the author of American Walks in London, Bloomsbury Past, Soho Past and The City of London Past.
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- PublisherW&N
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0900075821
- ISBN 13 9780900075827
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number3
- Number of pages320
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