Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital - Hardcover

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9783791349459: Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3791349457 ISBN 13: 9783791349459

Publisher: Prestel, 2014

Peel back the layers under a London street and you'll discover a haunting, dreamlike world of hand-laid brick sewers, forgotten tube stations, World War II evacuation shelters, secret government bunkers, and tunnel boring machines laying new sewer, communication, and transport grids. Bradley L. Garrett has worked with explorers of subterranean London to collect an astonishing array of images documenting forbidden infiltrations into the secret bowels of the city. This book takes readers through progressively deeper levels of historical London architecture below the streets. Beautifully designed to allow for detailed viewing and featuring bespoke map illustrations by artist Stephen Walter, this unique book takes readers to locations few dare to go, and even fewer succeed in accessing.

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Review:

...because thanks to the risks that Garrett and his cohorts have taken, the rest of us get to break through the facade of places to find their secret workings; the veins, chambers and organs of the great city-machine that seems too colossal and powerful. --Will Storr, The Sunday Telegraph, 17th August 2014

The book gives a tantalising impression of what it must be like to wander through these spaces with most of the photographs professionally posed and lighted. --Londonist, September 2014

About the Author:

Bradley L. Garrett is researcher at the University of Oxford. His writing and photography has been featured in media around the world. Garrett is the author of Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City. Will Self is a London-based journalist and the author of nine novels. His most recent book, Umbrella, was published in paperback in April 2013. Stephen Walter is an obsessive draftsman educated at the Royal College of Art. His interest in the semiotics and the phenomenon of place often finds form in hand-drawn maps.

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