by Christopher Hibbert · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140052473
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«London: The Biography of a City» is a social history essay by Christopher Hibbert, published by Penguin in paperback (304 pages, in English).
The book traces London's social history from the High Middle Ages to its contemporary era and also serves as a guide to its buildings and treasures, combining the account of urban evolution with descriptions of monuments, neighbourhoods and iconic settings.
Revised edition published in 1983; non-fiction work framed within British and European history.
For readers interested in the history of London, architecture and cultural travel, with a popular and general approach.
Arthur Raymond Hibbert, known as Christopher Hibbert, was an English author, popular historian and biographer. He has been called "a pearl of biographers" and "probably the most widely read popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific".
