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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Sandstone Press Ltd

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781913207496

RRP: £19.99

PAGES: 320

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 7, 2021

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The Wood that Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood

C.J. Schuler

Rachel Lichtenstein

Standing in the busy streets of South London today, it is hard to imagine that much of this suburban townscape was once a vast wood, stretching unbroken for almost seven miles from Croydon to the Thames at Deptford.This compelling narrative history charts the fortunes of the North Wood from the earliest times: its ecology, ownership, management, and its gradual encroachment by the expanding metropolis

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C.J. Schuler

C.J. Schuler is the author of three illustrated histories of cartography: Mapping the World, Mapping the City and Mapping the Sea and Stars and co-author of the best-selling Traveller’s Atlas. Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies: A History of the Authors’ Club of London, 1891-2016 was published in November 2016, and Along the Amber Route (Sandstone) in 2020.He has also written on literature, travel and the arts for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Tablet, The Financial Times and the New Statesman. He was chairman of the Authors’ Club from 2008 to 2015.