title: Dickens's London (Literary Travellers)
author: Peter Clark
description: <div>PETER CLARK has divided his interests between Middle East studies and Britain in the nineteenth century. He was born in Sheffield in 1939 and has degrees from the Universities of Keele and Leicester and worked for the British Council for thirty years, mostly in the Arab world. He has led cultural tours in Syria and Turkey. He has written books on Henry Hallam, Marmaduke Pickthall and Wilfred Thesiger, edited The Lefties Guide to Britain (Politico's, 2005), co-edited The Iraqi Marshlands, A Human and Environmental Study (Politico's, London, 2002) and has translated eight books - six fiction and two history - from Arabic.. His last book published is Istanbul in the 'Cities of the Imagination' series, published by Signal Books, Oxford, 2010. He is currently writing a book on Damascus for the same publisher. An occasional broadcaster and a regular reviewer of books for Asian Affairs, he is a cultural consultant, a Founder Trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and chairman of the Frome Society for Local Study.<BR></div>
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  # The Uncommercial Traveller
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles Dickens
  
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
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  CHAPTER I—HIS GENERAL LINE OF BUSINESS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II—THE SHIPWRECK
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III—WAPPING WORKHOUSE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV—TWO VIEWS OF A CHEAP THEATRE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V—POOR MERCANTILE JACK
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI—REFRESHMENTS FOR TRAVELLERS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII—TRAVELLING ABROAD
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII—THE GREAT TASMANIA'S CARGO
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IX—CITY OF LONDON CHURCHES
  
  
    
  CHAPTER X—SHY NEIGHBOURHOODS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XI—TRAMPS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XII—DULLBOROUGH TOWN
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIII—NIGHT WALKS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIV—CHAMBERS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XV—NURSE'S STORIES
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVI—ARCADIAN LONDON
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVII—THE ITALIAN PRISONER
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVIII—THE CALAIS NIGHT MAIL
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIX—SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF MORTALITY
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XX—BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXI—THE SHORT-TIMERS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXII—BOUND FOR THE GREAT SALT LAKE
  
  
    
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