London
The Biography
Peter Ackroyd

---

Author(s)

Peter Ackroyd

Publisher, year

London : Vintage Books, 2001

Scope

822 p., illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9780099422587

---

This book is a huge echo chamber of life-stories, folktales, and urban myths conjured up by Peter Ackroyd in an epic vision of his native city. Scholarship is transformed into smoky mystical street-history, with dark hypnotic meditations on fog, fire, sewage, suicide and civic resurrection.

---

Geographical location

London

Location

Cultural approach to (urban) space

Extra themes

Walk / stroll / explore / hang out

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.