Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair
by Tim Moore
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0099433869
- ISBN 13
- 9780099433866
- Seller
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Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Vintage. Light reading creases to spine, else crisp and tight. A tour round London with a Monopoly board. . Very Good. Soft cover. 2003.
Synopsis
"Moore is a talented and very funny writer" Daily TelegraphA book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board . In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and even park your car for free. In Do Not Pass Go Tim Moore, belying his reputation as a player who always paid that -10 fine rather than take a Chance, fearlessly tackles the real thing and along the way tells the story of a game and the city that frames it. Sampling the rags and the riches he stays in a hotel in Mayfair and one in the Old Kent Road, enjoys quality time with Dr Crippen in Pentonville Prison and even winds up at the wrong end of the Water Works pipe. And, solving all the mysteries you'll have pondered whilst languishing in jail and many other you certainly wouldn't, Tim Moore reveals how Pall Mall got its name, which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion. The stirring travelogue of one man's erratic progress around those 28 stations, utilities and street, Do Not Pass Go is also an epic and lovingly researched history of London's wayward progress in the 66 years since the launch of the world's most popular board game
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazy Letters Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12361
- Title
- Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair
- Author
- Tim Moore
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0099433869
- ISBN 13
- 9780099433866
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 12mo.
- Bookseller catalogs
- London;
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