Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube
by:
Andrew Martin (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781847658074 (1847658075)
Publish date: April 26th 2012
Publisher: Profile Books
Edition language: English
Numerous books have been written chronicling the history of the London Underground. This is evident from Andrew Martin's contribution to the genre, as he quotes frequently from several of them, interweaving between their deployment his own observations about the state of "Tube" today. He is well equ...
This is a light overview of the history of the tube from someone who carries his anorak over his arm rather than wearing it.He looks into the early development of the tube, and some of the significant characters who made the Tube what it is today. But what makes this book something other than anothe...