Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Everyday, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago
- she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is a paramedic. Everyday he drives to the addresses he receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day & is well acquainted with the symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle & bustle &, of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city. Before one day in May, Mathilde & Thibault had never met. They were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed & shoved & pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world. Underground Time is a novel of quiet violence
- the violence of office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city
- in which our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting.


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Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Everyday, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago
- she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is a paramedic. Everyday he drives to the addresses he receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day & is well acquainted with the symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle & bustle &, of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city. Before one day in May, Mathilde & Thibault had never met. They were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed & shoved & pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world. Underground Time is a novel of quiet violence
- the violence of office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city
- in which our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting.


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London`s Underground is one of the best-known & distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian Times, this remarkable feat of engineering has made an extraordinary contribrution to the economy of the capital & played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londonders. Stephen Halliday`s informative, entertaining, wide-ranging history of the Underground celebrates the vision & determination of the Victorian Pioneers who conceived this revolutionary transport system. His book records the scandal, disappointments, & disasters that have punctuated the story & the careers of the gifted, dedicated, sometimes corrupt individuals that have shaped it`s history. It also gives a fascinating insight into the neglected, often unseen aspects of this subterranean system
- the dense network of tunnels, shafts & chambers that have been created beneath the city streets. STEPHEN HALLIDAY is an authority on the history of London, with a special interest in the great engineering & construction works which created the modern city. He is the author of The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette & the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis.
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London`s Underground is one of the best-known & most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital & played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. Stephen Halliday`s informative, entertaining, wide-ranging history of the Underground celebrates the vision & determination of the Victorian Pioneers who conceived this revolutionary transport system. His book records the scandal, disappointments, & disasters that have punctuated the story & the careers of the gifted, dedicated, sometimes corrupt individuals that have shaped its history. It also gives a fascinating insight into the neglected, often unseen aspects of this subterranean system
- the dense network of tunnels, shafts & chambers that have been created beneath the city streets.
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A visual & anecdotal exploration of the curious worlds hidden beneath our feet, including ancient cities, salt mine cathedrals, underground amusement parks, & more. From bone-filled catacombs to sculpted salt churches to h&-carved cave complexes large enough to house 20, 000 people, Underground Worlds is packed with more than 50 unusual destinations that take some digging to find. Award-winning travel writer David Farley revels in the unexpected, whether it is a cave city in China which houses one of the world`s largest collections of Buddhist art or an old salt mine converted into a theme park in Romania. Stunning photos help readers see places they could not even imagine, such as a three-story underground train station in Taiwan that is home to the a 4, 500-panel ” Dome of Light” that is the largest glasswork on Earth, as well as secret spaces, such as an ornate temple built beneath a suburban home in Italy. Throughout the fascinating text are themed entries of underground systems such as the 2, 500-year-old water tunnels of Kish Qanat in Iran or engineering marvels like the New York City steam tunnels. ...

Underground, Overground: A Passenger`s History of the Tube by Andrew Martin blends reportage, humour & personal encounters to provide an engaging social history of London’s Underground system which, despite its name, is in fact 55 per cent overground. Drawing on a lifelong interest in the subject, the author – a journalist & novelist who lives in North London, shows how London made the Underground & the Underground made London. He introduces the men – seldom normal – who tried to control the system & relates the definitive, apparently, account of that much loved announcement “ Mind The Gap.” The book provides a more in-depth companion to the huge range of photo books covering the history of the network and/or reproducing its famous diagrammatic maps & posters. ...

Underground: How the Tube Shaped London, published by Allen Lane in cooperation with London’s Transport Museum & written by David Bownes, Oliver Green & Sam Mullins, respectively two of the Museum’s past Head Curators & its Director. Drawing on previously unused sources & images, the authors have produced a new history that celebrates the crucial role of the Underground in the creation & everyday life of modern London. The book is lavishly illustrated &, unlike many similar publications which contain mainly different versions of the London Underground map, most reproductions here show the beautiful advertising posters for which London Transport became famous right from its very first years. Even the reproductions of various tickets shown on the inside cover already indicate the quality of what’s to follow inside. The book also

Includes:: numerous photos from the various stages of the network’s planning & development. Blending social history with the story of the pioneering engineers, designers & social reformers who created the Underground system, the book will appeal not only to Londoners or transport historian, but also to all who are interested in the inspired use of graphic design for conveying information or advertising.

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Every line tells a different story.. . A troubled young woman travels across London to end an abusive relationship. An agitated father gets lost in the city with an injured toddler. Two men
- who unknowingly cross paths every day
- finally meet one life-changing afternoon. A sudden death on the platform at Blackfriars sparks rumours of murder. Underground, we are at once isolated & connected. We avoid eye contact & conversation while our lives literally intersect with those of strangers. As we stand on the tube, it becomes possible to travel far further than expected
- & this sense of possibility lies at the heart of this stunning collection. Twelve writers explore life on the London Underground through eleven short stories & one memoir, commissioned to mark the opening of the Elizabeth line in 2018.


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Underhill`s Punting Map of Oxford, a fold-out map with an illustrated companion to the pleasures of punting on the Cherwell & the Thames as they pass through the city, including simple tips on how to punt, a brief history of the pastime, & a guide to the riverside sights. On one side is a map of the Cherwell & its canals between the Victoria Arms pub & the Thames, plus the short stretch of the Thames from the Folly Bridge. The map indicates punt stations, weirs & barriers, & highlights various local landmarks. 16 of the sights have brief descriptions on the reverse side which also provides notes on how to punt, Oxford’s rivers, & history of punting. Information

Includes:: phone numbers of boating stations for placing revervations.

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Not so very long ago, our roads, our buildings, our gravestones & our monuments were built from local rock, our cities were powered by coal from Welsh mines, & our lamps were lit with paraffin from Scottish shale. At the height of the empire, British stone travelled across the world; to India & China, Sri Lanka & Argentina, Singapore & South Africa. Across the British Isles were mines, quarries, slag heaps & brick pits, where the earth was dug up & made visible. Today we live among the remnants of these times
- our older cities are built from Bath limestone, or Aberdeen granite
- but for the most part our mines are gone, our buildings are no longer local, & the flow of stone now travels from east to west. Spurred on by the erasure of history & industry, Ted Nield journeys across this buried landscape, from the small Welsh village where his mining ancestors were born & are buried, to Swansea, Aberdeen, East Lothian, Surrey & Dorset. Delving into the history & geology of this forgotten Britain, & into his ancestors` connection with the rocks of Britain, Nield unearths the raw veins of coal, stone, oil, rock & clay that make up the country beneath our feet, illuminating the ties between earth & place, & what the loss of kinship between past & present means for Britain, & the rest of the world today.

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