The Gnome King reviewed Dickens's London by Peter Clark
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4 stars
This is a must read book for the fans of Charles Dickens, ever wondered where the great man himself lived or went to school? Want to know the area his books were based and where his characters lived and died? If you want to visit these places and look for the landmarks that still exist, then this is the book for you.
The book contains 5 walks, it doesn't give lengths of the walks as there are plenty of little detours down side streets to make that a too difficult task. The first walk starts off at Trafalgar Square and if you look at all the routes at once it takes a sort of circular route around London finishing up at Trafalgar Square again.
I read this book during the great lockdown of 2020 so was unable to get out and do this book on foot, instead I read it …
This is a must read book for the fans of Charles Dickens, ever wondered where the great man himself lived or went to school? Want to know the area his books were based and where his characters lived and died? If you want to visit these places and look for the landmarks that still exist, then this is the book for you.
The book contains 5 walks, it doesn't give lengths of the walks as there are plenty of little detours down side streets to make that a too difficult task. The first walk starts off at Trafalgar Square and if you look at all the routes at once it takes a sort of circular route around London finishing up at Trafalgar Square again.
I read this book during the great lockdown of 2020 so was unable to get out and do this book on foot, instead I read it from the comfort of my home using google maps as a tool...not the easiest thing to do with that temperamental piece of software but I did mange to find a number of the places mentioned. Most interesting to me was the church that rang the bells in A Christmas Carol, that was the point where I realised just how brilliant this book was. I've only read a few of Dickens's books so I will have to re-read one day in the future when I've read more of them.
There is a huge amount of history included in the book and it was interesting to read about how London has changed since Dickens walked the streets...it is a shame that a lot of the buildings have been replaced with boring concrete and glass structures.
A very enjoyable book, crammed with lots of facts and hopefully one day I'll be able to get out there and follow one of the routes.
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