London Overground : A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line

Iain Sinclair explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route, tracking the shifting territory of the capital at street level.

The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Sinclair with a new path to walk. With thirty-three stations and thirty-five miles to tramp—plus inevitable and unforeseen detours and false steps—he embarks on a marathon circumnavigation, tracking the necklace of garages, fish farms, bakeries, convenience cafés, cycle repair shops and Minder lock-ups which enclose inner London.

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