An Underground Guide to Sewers: Or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &C.

by Stephen Halliday

A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities.

The sewer, in all its murkiness, filthiness, and subterranean seclusion, has been an evocative (and redolent) literary device, appearing in works by writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Graham Greene. This entertaining and erudite book provides the story behind, or beneath, these stories, offering a global guide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043343
• ISBN13: 9780262043342
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.7"