Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London

by Matthew Beaumont

Book Overview

A captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city's most iconic writers throughout history

"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781687951
• ISBN13: 9781781687956
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"