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LONDON LEGENDS · VOLUME IV
Builders & Dreamers
They didn't ask for permission. They picked up the blueprints and got to work.
London has been burned, bombed, and broken more times than any city deserves. What saved it — every time — was not luck or politics or money. It was the singular vision of people who looked at what was missing and decided, with complete seriousness, to build something that would outlast them.
Christopher Wren watched medieval London burn to the ground in 1666. He spent the next thirty-five years rebuilding it in stone and light. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral still defines the skyline three centuries later.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel drilled a tunnel beneath a navigable river, laid a railway across the spine of England, and launched ships so large the world wouldn't catch up for forty years. He was twenty-six when he started. He was dead at fifty-three. He left a country transformed.
John Nash gave London its face. Regent Street. Regent's Park. The grand stucco terraces that made a city of merchants look, for the first time, like a capital of empire.
Joseph Bazalgette saved London from itself. When the Thames had become an open sewer and cholera stalked every street, he built 82 miles of intercepting sewers beneath the city using 318 million bricks. The sewers still work today. Cholera never returned.
Four builders. Four centuries. One relentless city.
Narrative history at its most vivid: dramatic, precise, human.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. LONDON LEGENDS - VOLUME IVBuilders & DreamersThey didn't ask for permission. They picked up the blueprints and got to work.London has been burned, bombed, and broken more times than any city deserves. What saved it - every time - was not luck or politics or money. It was the singular vision of people who looked at what was missing and decided, with complete seriousness, to build something that would outlast them.Christopher Wren watched medieval London burn to the ground in 1666. He spent the next thirty-five years rebuilding it in stone and light. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral still defines the skyline three centuries later.Isambard Kingdom Brunel drilled a tunnel beneath a navigable river, laid a railway across the spine of England, and launched ships so large the world wouldn't catch up for forty years. He was twenty-six when he started. He was dead at fifty-three. He left a country transformed.John Nash gave London its face. Regent Street. Regent's Park. The grand stucco terraces that made a city of merchants look, for the first time, like a capital of empire.Joseph Bazalgette saved London from itself. When the Thames had become an open sewer and cholera stalked every street, he built 82 miles of intercepting sewers beneath the city using 318 million bricks. The sewers still work today. Cholera never returned.Four builders. Four centuries. One relentless city.Narrative history at its most vivid: dramatic, precise, human. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798181370746
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