num_pages: 482
description: London Orbital sets out to map the London that is deeply unfashionable and strangely unknown, even to those who live there. With an engaging wit familiar to his readers, Iain Sinclair focuses on the vast stretch of urban settlement bounded by the M25, the road that encircles London. Against dramatic smoke-filled skies he chronicles a series of epic walks, accompanied by simpatico friends and encountering such denizens of this demimonde as J. G. Ballard. Dave McKean's illustrations accompany this exploration of the desolate realm surrounding the historic city. "Sinclair is a prose stylist almost without peer." — San Francisco Chronicle
language: English
title: London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25
titlecomplete: London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25
genres: Geography, Cities, British Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel, Urban, 21st Century, Walking, History
ratings_count: 771
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orwell Prize
publisher: Granta Books