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Ben le Vay's Eccentric London: A Practical Guide To A Curious City
London is becoming the most cosmopolitan city on earth with massive infrastructure improvements in time for the 2012 Olympics without losing its secrets, its soul -– what someone recently called its endless reserves of cool. Benedict le Vay reveals London's most bizarre and macabre secrets with his novel approach, which doubles both as a thematic guide to the hidden attractions of the streets of London and a compelling insight into the citizens and culture of this historic city.

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Ben le Vay's Eccentric London: A Practical Guide To A Curious City
London is becoming the most cosmopolitan city on earth with massive infrastructure improvements in time for the 2012 Olympics without losing its secrets, its soul -– what someone recently called its endless reserves of cool. Benedict le Vay reveals London's most bizarre and macabre secrets with his novel approach, which doubles both as a thematic guide to the hidden attractions of the streets of London and a compelling insight into the citizens and culture of this historic city.

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Ben le Vay's Eccentric London: A Practical Guide To A Curious City

Ben le Vay's Eccentric London: A Practical Guide To A Curious City

by Benedict Le Vay
Ben le Vay's Eccentric London: A Practical Guide To A Curious City

Ben le Vay's Eccentric London: A Practical Guide To A Curious City

by Benedict Le Vay

Overview

London is becoming the most cosmopolitan city on earth with massive infrastructure improvements in time for the 2012 Olympics without losing its secrets, its soul -– what someone recently called its endless reserves of cool. Benedict le Vay reveals London's most bizarre and macabre secrets with his novel approach, which doubles both as a thematic guide to the hidden attractions of the streets of London and a compelling insight into the citizens and culture of this historic city.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781841623948
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 07/03/2012
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Part 1: Eccentric Londoners and their odd pursuits

 

Chapter 2 Eccentric Londoners

Chapter 3 Eccentric Shopping

Chapter 4 Murderous and Battlefield London

Chapter 5 Eccentric Pastimes

Chapter 6 Career Eccentrics

Chapter 7 Dead Eccentric London

Part 2: The eccentric city with all its oddities

Chapter 8 Immortalised London

Chapter 9 London’s Road to Eccentricity

Chapter 10 Beneath the Eccentric City

Chapter 11 The Eccentric Church and London's Surprising  Faiths

Chapter 12 Home of Eccentrics

Chapter 13 Eccentric Buildings

Chapter 14 Monumentally Eccentric

Chapter 15 Eccentric Gardens

Chapter 16 An Eccentric Place: Boozers, Beasts And Bogs

Part 3: Village London - Six really weird days out. The odd, bizarre and almost unbelievable in London’s villages, with maps and walking tours:

Chapter 17 Dulwich

Chapter 18 Greenwich

Chapter 19 Hammersmith

Chapter 20 Hampstead

Chapter 21 Kensington

Chapter 22 Wimbledon

Part 4: Bizarre bits of Inner London - Six strange excursions. Fascinating forays into  London’s inner secrets, with maps and walking tours:

Chapter 23 The City

Chapter 24 Earl's Court

Chapter 25 Fleet Street

Chapter 26 Soho

Chapter 27 Southwark

Chapter 28 Whitechapel

Part 5: Useful Information

 

Chapter 29 London’s Eccentric Year

 

Reading list

Index

Underground map and station index

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