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Richard Mabey

 

A GOOD PARCEL OF ENGLISH SOIL

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First published in Penguin Books 2013

Copyright © Richard Mabey, 2013

Cover image: © TfL from the London Transport Museum
Cover design: Jim Stoddart

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‘On a Ruined Farm near the His Master’s Voice Gramophone Factory’ by George Orwell (copyright © George Orwell, 1933) reprinted by kind permission of A.M. Heath & Co Ltd.

ISBN: 978-1-84-614617-6

Contents

A Good Parcel of English Soil

Further Reading

Penguin Lines

Camila Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company Mind the Child
The Victoria Line
Danny Dorling The 32 Stops
The Central Line
Fantastic Man Buttoned-Up
The East London Line
John Lanchester What We Talk About When We Talk About The Tube
The District Line
William Leith A Northern Line Minute
The Northern Line
Richard Mabey A Good Parcel of English Soil
The Metropolitan Line
Paul Morley Earthbound
The Bakerloo Line
John O’Farrell A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line
The Jubilee Line
Philippe Parreno Drift
The Hammersmith & City Line
Leanne Shapton Waterloo–City City–Waterloo
The Waterloo & City Line
Lucy Wadham Heads and Straights
The Circle Line
Peter York The Blue Riband
The Piccadilly Line