Felix Barker (1917–1997)
Auteur de London from the Air
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Felix Barker
Historic Greenwich 1 exemplaire
Guardians of the Heath: A Chronicle of Battles Fought by The Blackheath Society from 1937 to 2008 (2009) 1 exemplaire
Začiatky hľadania 1 exemplaire
The History of London in Maps 1 exemplaire
The Olivers 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1917-05-07
- Date de décès
- 1997-07-11
- Sexe
- male
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Felsted School
Choate School
Membres
Critiques
London: 2,000 Years of a City and its People par Felix Barker
It traces the development of London through the ages: the first rough dwellings on the Thames marshes in the first century AD; the city of the Norman Kings, the guilds and the Tudors; the London of Wren, the great Regency developers and the stately Victorians; and the sprawling, many-faced city of today.
Prví cestovatelia * Za horizont * Veľký vek objavov
For all of the iconic buildings and locales that make up London there were many proposals and visions which went unrealized. Felix Barker and Ralph Hyde's book provides a fascinating account of the various plans made over the previous four centuries, many of which would have created a very different metropolis from the one that exists today. In the process, the authors shed light on an often-overlooked part of London's history, one that is enormously fun to read for the humor with which they address some of the more outlandish suggestions and the speculation it inspires for how very different the city might be had some of these projects ever been realized.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 26
- Membres
- 574
- Popularité
- #43,646
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 39
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1