London made us : a memoir of a shape-shifting city
Elms, Robert, 1959-2020
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Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. 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 and a small community declare itself an independent nation; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms' home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to 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, 2020.
Collation:
296 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9781786892133 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.108509942.108942.1085942.1085092
Language:
English
Related title:
London Made Us [electronic resource] : A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City
Subject:
BRN:
442406