Stephen Inwood: 3 books

Book cover of Historic London

Historic London

An Explorer's Companion

by Stephen Inwood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

There is hardly a city in the world with richer historical and cultural assocations than London. It is a place where history has been made for thousands of years, and where it is still being made today. It is not a city frozen in time, preserved in its ancient medieval pomp but a place that has been...
Book cover of City Of Cities

City Of Cities

The Birth Of Modern London

by Stephen Inwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011

By 1880, London, capital of the largest empire ever known, was the richest, most populous city in the world. And yet it remained an overcrowded, undergoverned city with huge slums gripped by poverty and disease. Over the next three decades, London began its transformation into a new kind of city -...
Book cover of The Forgotten Genius
by Stephen Inwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Robert Hooke stood out as an inventive, versatile, and prolific scientist and architect in an age of brilliant minds. But for three hundred years his reputation has been overshadowed by those of his two great contemporaries, his friend Sir Christopher Wren and his rival Sir Isaac Newton. He was an inventor,...
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