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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Prestel Publishing Ltd.; 01 edition (1 Sept. 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 3791349457
  • ISBN-13: 978-3791349459
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 24.1 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 256,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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...because thanks to the risks that Garrett and his cohorts have taken, the rest of us get to break through the facade of places to find their secret workings; the veins, chambers and organs of the great city-machine that seems too colossal and powerful. --Will Storr, The Sunday Telegraph, 17th August 2014

The book gives a tantalising impression of what it must be like to wander through these spaces with most of the photographs professionally posed and lighted. --Londonist, September 2014

About the Author

Bradley L. Garrett is researcher at the University of Oxford. His writing and photography has been featured in media around the world. Garrett is the author of Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City. Will Self is a London-based journalist and the author of nine novels. His most recent book, Umbrella, was published in paperback in April 2013. Stephen Walter is an obsessive draftsman educated at the Royal College of Art. His interest in the semiotics and the phenomenon of place often finds form in hand-drawn maps.


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It is a great book, please ignore negative reviews. If you want to read more about the places on photographs you also need to buy earlier (and great as well) book by the same author - "Explore Everything".
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The pictures in this book are excellent but this isn't the book for you if you're looking for background and historical information about the places visited. There is only very brief captions identifying the locations and no further information about them.
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I have had to wait a few days & re-visit this book before writing a review as I was initially very disappointed.
I had been expecting a combination of fascinating underground photography, maps & history.
Instead what the book delivers is an introduction by Will Self, (has anyone ever been more aptly named?), then a series of headings such as water, rail etc which begin with a short and frankly pretty thin introduction followed by photographs.
The quality of the camera work is extremely varied. In truth this is not helped by the lacklustre printing which leaves much looking blurred and dull. There is rarely the sense of 'being there'.
The one line descriptions are also varied between cloying self congratulation on just how daring the whole project is to some that actually tell us something about what we are looking at.
The self congratulatory tone is not helped by the rather childish posing with red lighted hard hats in a few pictures. This is certainly more Urbex than Marchand.
The book is certainly well priced but corners have been cut in size, no jacket & poor quality paper.
The standout is Stephen Walter's 'Subterranea' highly detailed hand drawn map on the endpapers. This is the only map included sadly.
This is not terrible by any means but neither is it the standout guide I was hoping for. As the pre-order price began to fall I guess I knew that things were not going to be quite what I had hoped. I'd rather have paid £10 more & had a well printed & researched volume with more maps.
Bit of a shame really.
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Script hard to see, very small font, needed a magnifier. Minimal information. More about the photographer/author than about Underground London.
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I hope my title doesn't disappoint any ghouls among Amazon's customers! This is a really interesting book. I've been to some of the locations they show, but my trips were legal. There are others they've been to which I'd like to visit, but probably won't ever be able to, and I'm much too old to join these people using ropes to climb down old lift shafts. There are other locations such as the Fleet Sewer where the lure of adventure wouldn't be enough to persuade me to endure the smell.

The way they've printed the captions makes them hard to read against dark underground backgrounds - perhaps this was a graphic artist's way of re-inforcing the impression of illicit subterranean activities. Some captions fail to explain exactly where the photo was taken (like the one on the cover), and there are some factual mistakes,, but overall I'm glad to have read the book and I admire, though I probably shouldn't, the nerve and sense of adventure of the participants.
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Excellent photography, however, the book does not give much written detail which I found disappointing.
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Not very clear on pages and not up to what I expected anyone requiring a book to fully understand London Underground do not purchase this book
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Ruined by tiny font dark captions to the photographs. Very little information and background provided. A real disappointment.
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