UNDERGROUND LONDON: TRAVELS BENEATH THE CITY STREETS
Book ID/图书代码： 07980004B02002
English Summary/英文概要： What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It’s a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it’s also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King’s Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground, posters still warn that ’Careless talk costs lives’.
Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers, tunnels under such places as Hampton Court, ghost tube stations, and long lost rivers such as the Fleet and the Tyburn. This is ’alternative’ history at its best.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 倫敦城從古至今，激起許多作家的靈感，而這本書很特別，它帶領讀者從地底下來探索這座城市的生命和歷史。
作者在一座教堂的地下墓室，遇到了正在挖隧道的工人，便與他們一起穿越這座城市的許多地方，例如上頭是著名的街道，底下竟埋著古河道；漢普敦宮廷底下，竟藏國王與情婦私通時，秘密通道和涵洞；還有維多利亞時代的陰溝；政府的秘密地下掩體空間；塞滿各種古怪財寶的地窖；廢棄的地下車站；不再使用的郵局地下運輸鐵軌；威斯特明斯特王宮曾在地底策劃過著名的陰謀密室，等等。
Awards/获奖情况：’A notable portrait of London... By becoming a proper witness to the unseen, covert and little-known, [Smith] rescues reportage and makes of it a kind of poetry’---EVENING STANDARD
’[Smith] offers an enjoyable guide to the subterranean parts of a great city. His anecdotes are fun, and his sense of the envelopingly mysterious is spot-on.’---OBSERVER
’You can’t help but get hooked on this book, no matter where you live… Fascinating’---LADS MAG
About the Author/作者介绍： Steven Smith works for Channel 4 news and writes regularly for the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.
作者Stephen Smith是英國BBC電視臺第四頻道的新聞主持人，常為一些雜誌寫文章, 如《倫敦書評》、《新政治家》、《康得•納斯特旅行家》。
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