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Titel: No Free Parking
Zustand: Neu
Subtitle: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets
Autor: Nicholas Boys Smith
Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe
ISBN-10: 1789465389
EAN: 9781789465389
ISBN: 9781789465389
Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Genre: Indoor Games & Puzzle Books
Thematik: Home Garden & Pets, Travel & Transport
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.11.2022
Description:

'Weaves the wacky, the woeful and the wonderful into an entertaining narrative spiced with lots of London-inspired poetry' - The Times

From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs and struggles of everyone who ever called London home.

From the Roman and Celts marching along the ancient Old Kent Road, to the rattling newspaper presses of Fleet Street, the game of Monopoly has painted London's story across cheerful coloured tiles.

But those Monopoly streets live and breathe - they don't just illuminate our history. They open up whole new ways of thinking about it. The mobs have taken to our streets. The overlords have taken them back. Wars have spilled out into them. Lovers have snuck around them, and fires have raged through them.

In a city of rags and riches, where folk hero Dick Whittington believed the streets were paved with gold, anything could happen - and everything has.

You may think you know the history of London. You don't. Or at least, not entirely. This is the story of the capital as you've never, quite, heard it before.

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