Great Stink of London, Paperback - Stephen Halliday

A vivid account of the life and work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer who designed and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stati...

A landmark new history of the infamous Tower tracing its evolution and changing role, the many personalities who lived or were imprisoned there, an...

A fascinating insight into one of history's greatest catastrophes

Great Britain unearths the hidden legends, laws, landscapes, discoveries, adventures and locations that have shaped Britain's compelling, and at ti...

The only guide to London's literary landmarks is updated for this new edition

New B-format paperback - The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the med...

Why did London have to wait so long for a main-line railway beneath its streets? For a few years in the mid-nineteenth century, Isambard Kingdom Br...

A quirky and fact-packed guide to the feats of design and engineering at work in the ground beneath us.

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

2 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON In the early hours of 2 September a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In...

Publisher: MX PublishingAuthor(s): Janina WoodsNumber of pages: 322Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 241 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. St. Thomas More comes to life in this biography from the acclaimed ``Vision Books`` series of saints for youth 9 - 16 years old. Raised in the Lond...

DescriptionFirst published in 1935, this classic snapshot of London in the years before World War II glows with its Austrian author's affection for...

Reducere. Originally published in 1639 The Distiller of London provides readers with an understanding of the evolution that distilling went through as it mad...

Reducere. Fiction. Translated by Will Firth. A NOVEL OF LONDON is a classic of European modernism that established Serbian writer Milos Crnjanski as one of t...

Two wildcats find themselves in a race against time in a breathtaking adventure of courage and loyalty in The Fire Cats of London by award-winner A...

In his classic book on London, H. V. Morton turns his traveller's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail on the city that fascinated him since...

Publisher: The Alpha Press LtdAuthor(s): Robin D. GwynnNumber of pages: 68Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 228 x 155 x 5Cover type: Paperback / so...

What was so great about the Fire of London? Discover how the fire started in a baker shop, and what caused it to spread so quickly. Find out how pe...

A fascinating, illustrated account of the history and sites of the former gates of the City of London including some on the River Thames.Publisher:...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Tom WhittleNumber of pages: 159Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 15Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Janet B. PascalAuthor: Who HqIllustrator: David MalanThe Tower of London holds almost a thousand years' worth of secrets Th...

Entertaining stories of real famous lives and great events in a picture book format.

A polemical history of municipal socialism in London - and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again. A polemical history of munici...

A girl's quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when...

'The definitive guide to London's architecture' INDEPENDENT Fully updated for this edition.

A simple and attractive introduction to the Great Fire of London - a popular National Curriculum subject.Publisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor...

Reducere. If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. From the bath houses of Roman Londinium to the sexual underground of the twentieth c...

Reducere. Paperback edition of the novel which blends horror, sci-fi and detective fiction. Peter Grant is a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the fi...

A simple series that follows the KS1 history curriculum topics and introduces history at a level that really works.

Critically acclaimed first history series brought back new and refreshed to support the introduction of the new history curriculum.

Reducere. In Mary Lawrence's fifth Bianca Goddard mystery set during the final years of Henry VIII's reign, the alchemist's daughter uses her skills to aid t...

Reducere. Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? The fifth installment in the Great Escapes series has arrived-...

Publisher: OrionAuthor(s): Garth NixPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 35Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti ...

A brilliantly concise history of London, with a distinctive perspective focusing on the city in its national and, more importantly, international c...

Publisher: Cranthorpe Millner PublishersAuthor(s): Marcus AlexisIllustration(s): 34; 34Number of pages: 34Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 252 x 2...

Reducere. Clare Clark's critically acclaimed The Great Stink "reeks of talent" (The Washington Post Book World) as it vividly brings to life the dark and mys...

Reducere. DescriptionMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH meets Warriors in this "humorous, fast-paced adventure" (Kirkus Reviews) that proves that even the smal...

Publisher: Daily Fairy Tales LtdAuthor(s): Francesca LombardoNumber of pages: 30Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 204 x 128 x 15Cover type: Paperba...

A girl's quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when...

Exciting new stories about famous people and great events by top authors.

Reducere. On April 30th, 1665 Samuel Pepys wrote "Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up....