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London Walks and Legends (Mayflower Book)
London Walks and Legends - Mayflower Book Author:Mary C. Borer, Mary Cathcart Borer Walk down Holborn with Fagin and his partners-in-crime; quench your thirst in the Hampstead pub where Dick Turpin hung his hat; follow in the path of the death cart, which for five centuries took its wretched cargo from Newgate prison to the Tyburn gallows; visit old St Giles where Hogarth made his grim study, Gin Lane; look down on London with ... more »the young apprentice Dick Whittington's eyes...
London is one of the world's oldest and most beautiful cities. More than this, it is richly endowed with literature, history and legend.... But what are their historical origins in Old London? Mary Cathcart Borer answers this and many other fascinating questions as she guides the reader on a series of short and immensely rewarding walks around the city. It is an absorbing glimpse into London's rich, dark and imaginative past.« less