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      Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End

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      *A humorous but informative user-friendly guide to Greenwich.

      There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH - home of t...

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      Product ID:9780349112305
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Greenwich
      Subtitle:The Place Where Days Begin and End
      Authors:Author: Charles Jennings
      Page Count:256
      Subjects:Local history, Local history, Travel writing, Travel writing, London, Greater London
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      *A humorous but informative user-friendly guide to Greenwich.

      There is probably not a London suburb with more intense historical connections, more diversity and more astonishing buildings and artefacts than Greenwich. There are sections on MARITIME GREENWICH - home of the Maritime museum and the CUTTY SARK; ROYAL GREENWICH - Greenwich Park was Henry VIII''s favourite residence and where he met Anne Boelyn; SCIENTIFIC GREENWICH - home of the Royal Observatory and GMT and of course The Dome itself...

      What''s it going to be like compared to similar vast jamborees - the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival Britain of 1951, what is that strange fabric stretched over those yellow spikes and WHO is going to settle in the 1400-home Millennium Village, to be opened in 2000, with the remains of the old gasworks lying a couple of feet below?


      Imprint Name:Abacus
      Publisher Name:Little, Brown Book Group
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2001-01-04

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      Weight190 g
      Dimensions193 × 128 × 19 mm