London fog : the biography /

"In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow "pea-soupers," were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. The first globally notorious instance of air pollution, they remained a constant feature of cold, windless winter...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Corton, Christine L., 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Fog > England > London.
Cultural property > England > London.
Smog.
Smog
Air Pollution > history
Brouillard > Angleterre > Londres.
smog.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Climatology.
Cultural property.
Fog.
Travel.
Nebel
Luftverschmutzung
Kulturarv.
Dimma.
History.
London (England) > Climate.
London (England) > History.
London (England) > Description and travel.
Londres (Angleterre) > Histoire.
Londres (Angleterre) > Descriptions et voyages.
England > London.
London
Storbritannien > London.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The birth of London fog
  • Dickensian gloom
  • King Fog
  • Women in danger
  • The view from abroad
  • London apocalypse
  • Land of the living dead
  • The last gasp
  • Conclusion : the death of London fog.

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