An Underground Guide to Sewers
or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c.
Published on 5. November 2019
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-262-04334-2 (ISBN)
Description
A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities. Halliday begins with sanitation in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Greece, and Imperial Rome, and continues with medieval waterways.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
450 COLOR ILLUS.
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
940 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04334-2 (9780262043342)
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Persons
Stephen Halliday is the author of Water: A Turbulent History, Amazing and Extraordinary London Underground Facts, and The Great Stink: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis. Sir Peter Bazalgette is the greatgreat- grandson of Victorian civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the former head of both ITV and the Arts Council of England.