The Man Who Drew London - Couverture souple

Tindall, Gillian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0712667571 ISBN 13 : 9780712667579

Editeur : Pimlico, 2003

Synopsis

The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington live on for us in his etchings. Drawing on numerous sources, Gillian Tindall creates a montage of Hollar's life and times and of the illustrious lives that touched his. It is a carefully researched factual account, but she has also employed her novelist's skill to form an intricate whole - a life's texture which is also an absorbing and occasionally tragic story.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'With clarity of purpose and clarity of style, she has written a book that is both elegant and thoughtful.' Michael Prodge, Sunday Telegraph

The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington live on for us in his etchings.

Drawing on numerous sources, Gillian Tindall creates a montage of Hollar's life and times and of the illustrious lives that touched his. It is a carefully researched factual account, but she has also employed her novelist's skill to form an intricate whole - a life's texture which is also an absorbing and occasionally tragic story.

'Her intention is that fact and fiction should complement each other. This they do perfectly.' Frances Spalding, Sunday Times

Biographie de l'auteur :

Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, well known for the quality of her writing and the scrupulousness of her research; she makes a handful of people, a few locations or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture, as her seminal book The Fields Beneath, approached the history of Kentish Town, London. She has also written on London's Southbank (The House by the Thames), on southern English counties (Three Houses, Many Lives), and the Left Bank (Footprints in Paris), amongst other locations, as well as biography and prize-winning novels. Her latest book, The Tunnel through Time, traced the history of the Crossrail route, the forthcoming ‘Elizabeth’ line. She has lived in the same London house for over fifty years.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pimlico
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0712667571
• ISBN 13: 9780712667579
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256