The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs and improvisations. Yet it transports over one billion passengers every year - and this figure is rising. The author embarks on a social history of London's underground railway system.
"A knight living alone in his isolated mountain fortress shows hospitality to a pair of pilgrims who appear one day from the mountains, seeking shelter. Entreating him to tell them of his sorrow, the knight unburdens himself of his tragedy and loss, unaware of the true nature of the two young people's ...
