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Author:

Johnson, Boris.

Title:

Johnson's life of London : the people who made the city that made the world / Boris Johnson.

Publisher:

Riverhead Books,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

320 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

London (England)--Biography.
London (England)--History.

Notes:

Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2011.

Contents:

London Bridge -- Boudica -- Hadrian -- Mellitus -- Alfred the Great -- William the Conqueror -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Richard Whittington -- The flush toilet -- William Shakespeare -- Robert Hooke -- The King James Bible -- Samuel Johnson -- The Bow Street runners -- John Wilkes -- The suit -- J.M.W. Turner -- The bicycle -- Lionel Rothschild -- Ping-pong -- Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole -- Joseph Bazalgette and the sewers -- W.T. Stead -- The Tube -- Winston Churchill -- The routemaster bus -- Keith Richards -- The Midland Grand Hotel.

ISBN:

1594487472
9781594487477

OCLC:

(OCoLC)761846657

LCCN:

2012001665

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