The London Cabbie [Audiobook] download free by Alf Townsend
- Listen audiobook: The London Cabbie
- Author: Alf Townsend
- Release date: 2007/9/8
- Publisher: THE HISTORY PRESS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780750944960
- Rating: 9.33 of 10
- Votes: 395
- Review by: Preston Payne
- Review rating: 8.58 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/23
- Duration: 2H20M32S in 256 kbps (38.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-04
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Apple Lossless, WAV, MOD, MPEG4, FLAC, WMA, Musepack, MP3 (compression ZIP, TAR.XZ, EML, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 192
- Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M54S (3.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Forty years ago Alf Townsend passed The Knowledge - after 14,000 miles on a moped round central London. Since then he has covered millions of miles in his taxi. This book includes a selection of his extraordinary and hilarious tales of everyday life as a cabbie, in which we meet Mr Whippy and Violent Pete, Bread Roll Mick and the Motorway Mouse, Claude the Bastard and the mysterious Mr X. Alf also examines the history of cab-driving in the capital - including the variety of taxis that have been used - and even tries to shed some light on the most ancient and obscure Hackney Carriage laws that are still on the statute book. (Do you know why a taxi is so tall? So a passenger can get on board wearing a top hat: it's true...) Concluding with a look at the seamy side of night work, the rise and rise of the mini-cab, and what the future may hold for the London cabbie, Alf Townsend's book will be entertaining reading for all Londoners, and anyone else who has travelled in the back of a black cab.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Motor Cars, Autobiography: General, Biography: General
- Download servers: OpenDrive, Koofr, Hotfile, FileServe, BitShare, DelaFil, Uploaded, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox. Compressed in ZIP, TAR.XZ, EML, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.60 USD
- Dimensions: 127x198x10mm
- Weight: 240g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Stroud, United Kingdom
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