Mind the Gap [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

James, Simon

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ISBN 10: 0007114478 ISBN 13: 9780007114474

Casa editrice: HarperCollins Illustrated, 2001

Riassunto

With a foreword by Michael Palin, Mind the Gap is a warm, nostalgic, eccentric book about London’s tube lines, and particularly the ends of the lines – exotic destinations such as West Ruislip, Uxbridge, Upminster and Cockfosters.

Photographer and writer Simon James has visited every last one of these quasi-mythical places, capturing on film London’s suburban hinterland, that no-man’s-land that is not quite city nor countryside, but a utopian combination of both – with their overgrown railway cuttings, litter-free stations, time-warp parades of shops, indistinguishable Acacia Avenues, pipe-and-slippers ’30s architecture, and occasional, bizarre, even menacing incongruities – such as James’ photograph of the ‘Secret Nuclear Bunker’ near Chipping Ongar... Combined with numerous tube facts, figures and fantasies accumulated by the author on his travels, Mind the Gap is the book of the great unknown, the great adventure that awaits all Londoners.

Michael Palin has kindly agreed to write a foreword to Mind the Gap, and has authorised his name to be printed on its front. He is the perfect person to endorse the book, not just because its photographs are as amiable, quirky and English as he is, but also due to his status as a traveller of renown – not just on the obvious globe-trotting level, but also in his capacity as chairman of the pressure group Transport 2000.

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L'autore:

Simon James works principally as an editorial and portrait photographer in London, and his photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions in this country and overseas. His portrait of Anne Widdecombe MP was used for the poster for the John Kobal Portrait Awards in 1999 and he currently has two images on the wall at the National Portrait Gallery.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

'Mind the Gap' is a book about the great adventure that is open to anyone prepared to fork out for an All Zones Travelcard: the journey to the end of a tube line. Simon James has visited every one of them, recording London's suburban hinterland, a strangely utopian world of blue skies, overgrown railway cuttings, time-warp parades of shops, pipe-and-slippers '30's architecture, rain, litter-free stations and decommissioned nuclear bunkers. With a Foreword by Michael Palin, President of Transport 2000, stalwart campaigner for better public transport and globetrotter extraordinaire, this is a nostalgic, affectionate, some might even say eccentric look at the London Underground.

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• Editore: HarperCollins Illustrated
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0007114478
• ISBN 13: 9780007114474
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160