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Àâòîð:

Çàãëàâèå:

Underground England

Òèï íîñèòåëÿ:

Îäíîòîìíèê.

Ìåñòî èçäàíèÿ:

London

Èçäàòåëüñòâî:

Abacus

Ãîä èçäàíèÿ:

2010

Îáúåì:

306 p.

Àííîòàöèÿ:

As a companion and guide, he is well-informed, cheery and indefatigable; as a writer, he is given to flowery phrasemaking ('steepling piles— and 'moon-rimed dales—) and dangerously prone to alliteration ('terpsichorean tramplings—, a 'peripatetic pedagogue—). These stylistic tricks are tiresome, but his book brings together some surprising and entertaining information. Smith is not afraid of sweeping statements. The English, he maintains, have always been particularly keen on caves, and Nottingham, a name derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'snodenge— (caves) and 'ham— (house) is 'the most cave riddled city in England—, where people lived in them until the 1970s. Today, you can still descend into a cave underneath a branch of the fashionable men—s clothes shop, Paul Smith. In Wolverley, not far away, Smith finds a cave recently converted by its proud owner into a three bedroom house, on the market for a substantial sum.

ISBN:

978-0-349-12038-6

ßçûê:

Àíãëèéñêèé

ÁÁÊ:

Ðàçìåðû èçäàíèÿ:

20 cì.

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