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25%OFFKarl Whitney - Hidden City: Adventures And Explorations In Dublin - 9780241966129 - 9780241966129
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Hidden City: Adventures And Explorations In Dublin

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Description for Hidden City: Adventures And Explorations In Dublin Paperback. DUBLIN Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In this book, the author finds hidden places and untold stories in underground rivers of the Liberties, on the derelict sites once earmarked for skyscrapers in Ballsbridge, in the twenty Dublin homes once inhabited by Joyce, and on the beach at Loughshinny. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 192.

Karl Whitney's Hidden City: a brilliant portrait of Dublin

Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been described by Gorse as 'Dublin's best psychogeographer since James Joyce' - explores the places the city's denizens and tourists easily overlook.

Whitney finds hidden places and untold stories in underground rivers of the Liberties, on the derelict sites once earmarked for skyscrapers in Ballsbridge, in the twenty Dublin homes once inhabited by Joyce, and on the beach at Loughshinny, where he watches raw sewage being pumped into the shallows of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241966129
SKU
9780241966129
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-5

About Karl Whitney
A native of Dublin, Karl Whitney has published essays in the Dublin Review and the White Review, and journalism in the Guardian, Belfast Telegraph and Irish Times. He is a research associate at the UCD Humanities Institute. Hidden City is his first book.

Reviews for Hidden City: Adventures And Explorations In Dublin
Ingenious and affectionate ... It would be great then if the Americans and the Germans who come to Dublin in large numbers, and claim to love the city, had Whitney's book in hand rather than, say, Ulysses, or some official guide book
Colm Toibin Guardian Marvellous ... The author's eye for observation is second to none ... Hidden City ... Read more

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