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Underground London

By: Stephen Smith
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in Underground London, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground, posters still warn that 'Careless talk costs lives'.

Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers, tunnels under such places as Hampton Court, ghost tube stations, and long lost rivers such as the Fleet and the Tyburn. This is 'alternative' history at its best.

©2004 Steven Smith (P)2009 Oakhill Publishing Europe Great Britain Sociology Travel Writing & Commentary Urban Western Europe England City Royalty King

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Great book and incredibly engaging however there is a repetition of 2/3 chapters randomly in the middle, (Chapter 35-40 I think) which is a little annoying. But this little oddity aside, this is a great listen.

Great book but some chapters are doubled

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In agreement with previous reviews - subject matter is riveting, but why was this read by a woman when written by a man?

Interesting but wrong narrator

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Very interesting story and I wished I lived in London to investigate all the places!

But being writen by a male and read by a female does provide some odd comments and sentences - why was this done I wonder?

Great apart form female narrator

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An excellent book but I experienced issues with the audio. A whole chunk of the book repeated and made it really hard to know how far to skip forward to resume.

Excellent book but audio issues

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The bugs contents were good, but the narrator was incorrect, the book is narrated by a woman, but in parts, mentions that the author is a man, which makes the narrationlittle bit strange. Also, what’sp with the book ending in the middle of the chapter? It just ended, in the middle of something about mailrail. Someone needs to look at this book for its continuity and also for chapters. The chapters seem all wrong

The book was good but,

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I would like to know why they chosen to have a book written from a man's point of view read by a woman?

It does detract from the experience.

Gender confusion

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Looks at some of the things most people don’t know about very well written with great depth of understanding but also very funny in parts

Great information

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From sewers and subways to ancient Roman remains and burial sites of kings this book takes you on a subterranean tour of London. Having been born and brought up in the square mile I was astounded at much of what I read. I highly recommend both the book and the narrator who has a knack of delivery the sometimes poetical descriptions of prosaic underground infrastructure in a dryly humorous style.

All the places you never knew were beneath your feet

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This really doesn’t work on a book where there are tales of first person stories saying “right gentlemen” and “over here men”. Several times I thought eh? then remembered it was a male author

Female narration

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I enjoyed this book and it is full of interesting facts and stories about what lies beneath the metropolis. The only off putting thing is it is written by a man and read by a woman and for some reason it does not quite work.

But never the less a good 'easy' listen and you can dip in and out which is good if like me you listen in bed and fall asleep and have to keep re winding!

Shame about the narrator

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