Novelist and writer Tindall traces changes in Kentish Town, her London neighborhood, over some 1,600 years as it was transformed from a small settlement beside a track some miles out of the city, into the busy inner-city district of today. Among her topics are roads and rivers, ordinary people, the rustic idyll, country into suburb, and with gas and attendance. The 1977 edition was published by Maurice Temple Smith; for this edition she adds a postscript. Distributed in the US by Dufour. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)