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Sto caricando le informazioni... The House By the Thames: And the People Who Lived There (2006)di Gillian Tindall
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Impressive painstaking research into the area beside Tate Modern, and specifically the inhabitants of one cottage. Fascinating to see how the fortunes of the area have gone up and down through the centuries, and the differing occupations - from lighter men to film stars have come and gone. ( ) The house of the title was built on an earlier foundation in 1710 at Bankside, Southwark, just across the Thames from St. Paul's Cathedral and today a stone's throw from both the Tate Modern gallery and the new Globe Theater. The author has traced, through remarkably close archival research, the history of this tiny piece of London real estate and its neighborhood since Roman times, bringing evolving London alive in the process of doing so. A model history of place, although the wealth of historical detail presented meant that the narrative occasionally moved a little slowly for a casual reader like me. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Just across the River Thames from St Paul's Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. Over the course of almost 450 years the dwelling on this site has witnessed many changes. From its windows, people have watched the ferrymen carry Londoners to and from Shakespeare's Globe; they have gazed on the Great Fire; they have seen the countrified lanes of London's marshy south bank give way to a network of wharves, workshops and tenements - and then seen these, too, become dust and empty air. Rich with anecdote and colour, this fascinating book breathes life into the forgotten inhabitants of the house - the prosperous traders; an early film star; even some of London's numberless poor. In so doing it makes them stand for legions of others and for a whole world that we have lost through hundreds of years of London's history. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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