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Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City

Available exclusively from Stanfords in advance of publication date (29th May).Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital – and, at over 1,400 metres, it is Britain`s highest peak? This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of Mount London by a hardened team of writers, poets and urban cartographers, each one scaling a smaller mountain within the city – from Crystal Palace (112m) to Primrose Hill (78m) – until the accumulative climb exceeds the height of Ben Nevis. The essays and stories in Mount London unpeel London`s history, geography and psychogeography, reimagining the city as mountainous terrain and exploring what it`s like to move through the urban landscape. Ascents of London`s natural peaks are offset by expeditions to the artificial mountains of the city – the Shard (306m), the chimneys of Battersea Power Station (103m) – and the search for `ghost hills` in the back streets of Whitechapel and Finsbury. With contributions by Helen Mort, Joe Dunthorne, Sarah Butler, Inua Ellams, Bradley Garrett and many more, Mount London is a unique and visionary record of the vertical city.

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