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London: A Concise History

Geoffrey Trease

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Description:Before the Romans crossed the Thames in AD 43 London was barely a cluster of mud huts. With a bridge and a radiating network of roads, the Romans began creating Londinium. It grew and developed and spread. From then on the city took on many forms. The Anglo-Saxon Lundeneric The London Town of Mayor Walworth and Wat Tyler Dunbar’s ‘flower of cities all’ Spenser’s ‘most kindly nurse’. To Dr Johnson, London had ‘all that life can afford’ Whilst Shelley thought Hell ‘a city much like London’. It is an enduringly fascinating story, with ‘a cast of thousands’: Fitzstephen, friend of Thomas à Becket, to whom ‘the only inconvenience of London is the immoderate drinking of foolish persons’; Burbage the actor-manager and his fellow player Will Shakespeare; clever, amorous Samuel Pepys; Boswell, whose London Journal is a mine of good quotes; the Prince Regent and John Nash who designed Regent’s Park; and many, many more. The story is taken to the lurid, heroic days and nights of the Blitz, the Second Fire of London, and the period of reconstruction that followed. Geoffrey Trease’s knowledge of London is extensive and peculiar. Many a native Londoner will find unexpected things in this survey of London’s rich and varied past. Geoffrey Trease (1909-1998) was the author of more than one hundred books, including children’s books. He revolutionised children’s literature and was one of the first authors to deliberately appeal to both boys and girls through strong leading characters of both genders. In 1966 Trease won the New York Herald Tribune Book Award This is Your Century. Trease also wrote Samuel Pepys and His World .We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with London: A Concise History. To get started finding London: A Concise History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Before the Romans crossed the Thames in AD 43 London was barely a cluster of mud huts. With a bridge and a radiating network of roads, the Romans began creating Londinium. It grew and developed and spread. From then on the city took on many forms. The Anglo-Saxon Lundeneric The London Town of Mayor Walworth and Wat Tyler Dunbar’s ‘flower of cities all’ Spenser’s ‘most kindly nurse’. To Dr Johnson, London had ‘all that life can afford’ Whilst Shelley thought Hell ‘a city much like London’. It is an enduringly fascinating story, with ‘a cast of thousands’: Fitzstephen, friend of Thomas à Becket, to whom ‘the only inconvenience of London is the immoderate drinking of foolish persons’; Burbage the actor-manager and his fellow player Will Shakespeare; clever, amorous Samuel Pepys; Boswell, whose London Journal is a mine of good quotes; the Prince Regent and John Nash who designed Regent’s Park; and many, many more. The story is taken to the lurid, heroic days and nights of the Blitz, the Second Fire of London, and the period of reconstruction that followed. Geoffrey Trease’s knowledge of London is extensive and peculiar. Many a native Londoner will find unexpected things in this survey of London’s rich and varied past. Geoffrey Trease (1909-1998) was the author of more than one hundred books, including children’s books. He revolutionised children’s literature and was one of the first authors to deliberately appeal to both boys and girls through strong leading characters of both genders. In 1966 Trease won the New York Herald Tribune Book Award This is Your Century. Trease also wrote Samuel Pepys and His World .We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with London: A Concise History. To get started finding London: A Concise History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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