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In Search of London by: H.V. Morton List Price: £9.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.99 You Save: £3.00 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 910 EAN: 9780413184702 ISBN: 0413184706 Label: Methuen Publishing Ltd Manufacturer: Methuen Publishing Ltd Number Of Pages: 440 Publication Date: April 14, 1988 Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd Studio: Methuen Publishing Ltd Sales Rank: 73090 Related Items:
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 Rating: - classic travel writing !H.V.Morton was one of the great travel writers and if you read Bill Bryson,Paul Theroux etc they all at some stage acknowledge that Morton blazed a trail for them to follow. "In Search of London" is one of his best and what is particularly fascinating is the period Morton writes about - 5/6 years after World War 2. It's a London hugely damaged by the Blitz and struggling to recover and for those with better knowledge of London than me it must be particularly interesting to compare his descriptions of particular bomb damaged locations with the same scene today. Morton has the magical ability to blend current day scenes with history and to bring by-gone times vividly to life - in his description of the Tower Of London he mentions Henry's six ... Read More: |
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