London made us : a memoir of a shape-shifting city
Elms, Robert, 1959-2019
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Robert Elms has seen London change beyond all imagining: the house he grew up in is now the behemoth that is the Westway flyover, and areas once deemed murder miles have morphed into the stuff of estate agents' dreams, seemingly in a matter of months. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs, a small community declare itself an independent nation and animals of varying exoticism roam free through its streets; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms' home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to epoch- and world-changing events.
Main title:
London made us : a memoir of a shape-shifting city / Robert Elms.
Author:
Elms, Robert, 1959-, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2019.
Collation:
320 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781786892119 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.108509942.108942.1085942.108 ELMSLON 942.1085092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2239908