Underground London by John Hollingshead audiobook.

Genre: history

Published in 1862, John Hollingshead's Underground London invites you beneath the clamorous streets of early-to-mid Victorian London, where the citys true lifelines run in darkness. With the brisk curiosity of a reporter and the wit of an essayist, Hollingshead becomes your guide through buried rivers, old channels and forgotten passages, and into the practical, messy machinery that keeps a metropolis alive: sewers, drains, waterworks and the expanding web of gas pipes that turns night into day. Moving between lively street-level observation and below-ground investigation, he introduces the engineers, laborers and officials wrestling with a problem that touches every home and every neighborhood: how to supply a swelling population with clean water and light while carrying away its waste. Along the way, he gathers local legends and eerie stories, compares competing schemes, and builds toward the heated public debates of his moment, including bold proposals for a railway that would run underground. By turns informative, sardonic and surprisingly atmospheric, this is a portrait of a city confronting modernity from the foundations up.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:36:14) Chapter 02

(00:56:03) Chapter 03

(01:15:58) Chapter 04

(01:41:51) Chapter 05

(02:09:03) Chapter 06

(02:26:16) Chapter 07

(02:55:10) Chapter 08

(03:25:39) Chapter 09

(03:44:54) Chapter 10

(04:33:36) Chapter 11

(04:42:14) Chapter 12

(04:56:00) Chapter 13

(05:04:36) Chapter 14

(05:22:55) Chapter 15

(05:36:52) Chapter 16

(05:59:02) Chapter 17

(06:17:14) Chapter 18

(06:24:51) Chapter 19

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