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"London, the Biography" by Peter Ackroyd differs from "London: The Autobiography" (by Lewis) in that the latter is a collection of writings about London by time period. In Ackroyd's Biography of London, the chapters are arranged by time period, with historical information, maps, /5().  · While many authors have shone a flashlight on London's catacombs and tunnels, Ackroyd's vision is infra-red. He's at home in the gloom. He's . London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, both real and fictional, that dwell in the darkness - rats and eels, monsters and ghosts/5().

Peter Ackroyd's London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets takes us below the level of the pavement to a subterranean world of sewers, storage vaults, refuges from bombings, and subways. You might say that it's a below-the-ground companion to the same author's London: The Biography. M@ Book Review: London Under By Peter Ackroyd. London The Biography is, for many, Buy London Under from Amazon. Last Updated 12 April Report a problem with this article. Featured. London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets PDF Book by Peter Ackroyd () Download or Read Online Free. Author: Peter Ackroyd | Submitted by: Maria Garcia | Views | View Chapter List | Add a Review London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets PDF book by Peter Ackroyd Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI eBooks.

London Under, by Peter Ackroyd Aug by Barry Peter Ackroyd is an outstanding biographer who has written excellent books on Shakespeare, Chaucer, J.M.W. Turner, and Isaac Newton among others. London Under is a book by British biographer, novelist, and critic Peter Ackroyd about the history of underground London. Synopsis [ edit ] The book ' is an introduction to everything that goes on under London'. Author Peter Ackroyd's previous book, London: The Biography, was a prodigious achievement albeit mildly schizophrenic. Here in LONDON UNDER, Ackroyd embellishes his story of the city with aspects of it that he perhaps felt he didn't fully explore on the first go.