Subterranean London
Cracking the Capital
Prestel (Publisher)
Published on 21. August 2014
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-3-7913-4945-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"The most comprehensive photographic account of subterranean London ever produced."--Slate
"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
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Munich
Germany
Illustrations
120 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-7913-4945-9 (9783791349459)
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Persons
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.