Why read An Underground Guide to Sewers?

Book cover of An Underground Guide to Sewers: Or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c.

Book description

A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities.

The sewer, in all its murkiness, filthiness, and subterranean seclusion, has been an evocative (and redolent) literary device, appearing in works by writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Graham Greene. This entertaining…

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Why read it?

1 author picked An Underground Guide to Sewers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Julie Anderson

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I have always admired the pioneering Victorian engineers like Stephenson and Brunel, but especially Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who is less recognised and honoured than others, but whose genius provided a sewage system for London which improved sanitation, reduced disease, and death, allowed for the development of the Embankment and lasted for over a century! This book tells the story of those sewers and ones like them across the world and the remarkable men who designed and built them, many of them little known to their countrymen and women. It's absolutely fascinating, from the technical details to the social impact. It…

From Julie's list on secret subterranean London.