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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
A Good Parcel of English Soil
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| Danny Dorling | The 32 Stops The Central Line |
| Fantastic Man | Buttoned-Up The East London Line |
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| 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 |