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Underground London

By: Stephen Smith
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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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.

©2004 Steven Smith (P)2009 Oakhill Publishing Europe Great Britain Sociology Urban Western Europe England Royalty Middle Ages
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In agreement with previous reviews - subject matter is riveting, but why was this read by a woman when written by a man?

Interesting but wrong narrator

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This really doesn’t work on a book where there are tales of first person stories saying “right gentlemen” and “over here men”. Several times I thought eh? then remembered it was a male author

Female narration

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Really interesting book. Steven Smith covers a large range of subjects and time periods while also covering some really interesting side stories.

Very Interesting

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I love history of London and the Underground, but found I couldn't maintain my attention on this. While there were some interesting parts, I was hoping for something as engaging as a Bill Bryson, it's just not that good. Like others, I'm going to ask why the narrator is a woman? At first I thought maybe the author was writing as a lesbian, but later it becomes apparent that no, this woman's voice talking about being a man. Actually the narrator, is otherwise, very good. Didn't return it, but came close to it. It won't get a second listen.

A bit meh

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An excellent book but I experienced issues with the audio. A whole chunk of the book repeated and made it really hard to know how far to skip forward to resume.

Excellent book but audio issues

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