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Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps by Iain Sinclair & LSE
100.00 AUD
Category: Popular History
From 1886 to 1903, passionate social reformer Charles Booth (1840-1916) conducted a landmark survey of the life and labour of the poor of London, which resulted in the finding that 35% of Londoners were living in abject poverty. This shocking statistic is brought to life by the hundreds of interviews wi ...Show more
Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project by Iain Sinclair
22.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
What happens when the games have gone? Iain Sinclair reports on the trouble to come. Beginning in his east London home many years before it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far in search of the forgotten and erased. Burrowing under the perimet ...Show more
Living with Buildings - And Walking with Ghosts - on Health and Architecture by Iain Sinclair
22.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Wellcome Collection
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane. We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us ...Show more
Living with Buildings - Health and Architecture by Iain Sinclair
29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Wellcome Ser.
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... stories weave and unweave over the book's course, patterning thought into a complex built environment, at once disorientating and illuminating.' Robert MacfarlaneWe shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us ...Show more
London Overground: A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line by Iain Sinclair
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
'A walk around the circuit of the elevated railway, that accidental re-mapping of London, in a single day.' The completion of the full circle of London Overground in December 2012 provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. With thirty-three stations and thirty- ...Show more
The Gold Machine - In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers by Iain Sinclair
39.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors. In The Gold Machine, Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by - and in reaction to - an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather, Art ...Show more
The Gold Machine - Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony by Iain Sinclair
22.99 AUD
Category: History
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors. Iain ...Show more
The Last London : True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the ...Show more
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
36.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Iain Sinclair has been documenting the peculiar magic of the river-city that absorbs and obsesses him for most of his adult life. In The Last London, he strikes out on a series of solitary walks and collaborative expeditions to make a final reckoning with a capital stretched beyond recognition. Here is ...Show more
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