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When Did Big Ben First Bong?: 101 Questions Answered About the Greatest City on Earth

When Did Big Ben First Bong?: 101 Questions Answered About the Greatest City on Earth

by David Long (Author)

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    Hardcover 2010

    $3.44
Synopsis

Millions live there, millions more visit each year - but how many really know London? Do you know when Big Ben first bonged - or even who Ben was? Why the River Thames is so-called? Which top Nazi was locked up in the Tower? Or what runs through the more than 50 miles of train-size tunnels which ring the city, stretch further than the Channel Tunnel and lie deeper than the Tube - and, no, the answer's not trains. The world's first celebrity chef, its oldest club, the worst ever mockney accent, a chapel full of prizefighters and the last Prime Minister to challenge a rival to a duel with pistols - from the truth about Handel's ears to hippos living in Trafalgar Square, it's all in When Did Big Ben First Bong?, the ultimate trivia guide to the greatest city on Earth.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Published: 01 Sep 2010
ISBN 10: 0752455842
ISBN 13: 9780752455846
Book Overview: MARKETING, PUBLICITY, PRESS * London press including London Evening Standard, Times, etc., as well as London travel titles, which author knows will feature the book * BBC Radio London are likely to cover it * Obvious tie-tins with events like London Architecture Festival, Open House London, etc. * A plethora of London-based websites and blogs which will be interested in this book

Author Bio
Writer and journalist DAVID LONG has regularly appeared in The Times and the London Evening Standard, as well as on TV and radio. As well as being an award-winning ghostwriter, he has written a number of books on London, including Spectacular Vernacular, Tunnels, Towers & Temples, and the highly successful Little Book of London.