Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital

Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital

by Bradley L . Garrett (Author)

Synopsis

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 London's historical and contemporary architecture below the streets. Beautifully designed to allow for detailed viewing and featuring bespoke illustrations by artist Stephen Walter, Subterranean London reveals the locations few dare to go, and even fewer succeed in accessing.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 176
Edition: Expanded
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 01 Sep 2015

ISBN 10: 3791381881
ISBN 13: 9783791381886

Media Reviews
The joy of this [book] is that rather than showing something merely dead, it reveals secrets that apply to people's own lives, it widens the emotion and wonder by creeping into the little dark corners of a major city's psyche.

--Vermicious
The most comprehensive photographic account of subterranean London ever produced.

--Slate

Author Bio
BRADLEY L. GARRETT is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City.