London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25

Name: London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Iain Sinclair
ISBN: 9781862075474

Iain Sinclair

05/09/2002
Granta Books

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25 par Iain Sinclair

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur In this volume Iain Sinclair sets out to map the vast stretch of urban settlement outside London bounded by the M25. His long journeys - from the Lea Valley to Uxbridge, from Staines to South Mimms - are flanked by the black clouds of smoke from burning carcasses as the foot and mouth panic takes hold. Here he uncovers a history of forgotten villages, suburban utopias and hellish asylums, now transformed into upmarket housing, all the while walking a disappearing landscape, as the countryside is engulfed by commerce. Biographie de l'auteur Iain Sinclair was born in Cardiff and now lives in Hackney, East London. He is the author of Lights Out for the Territory, Landor's Tower, White Chappell Scarlet Tracings, Downriver, Lud Heat and Radon Daughters.