Join John Rogers as he endeavors out into an uncharted London such as a redbrick Indiana Jones searching for the lost meaning of our metropolitan presence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the times of year seeking adventure inside our city’s remote and forgotten gets to.

Foreword written and go through by Russell Brand.

When John Rogers packed aside his rucksack to start a family in London he didn’t end travelling. But rather than canoeing in the Rejang about This Other London: Escapades in the Overlooked Town River to find retired headhunters in Sarawak, he caught the ferry to Woolwich in search of the edge of the town at Crayford Marshes.

This Other London recounts that journey and many more – all by walking and epic in their own cartilage-crunching way. Clutching a samosa and a small number of out-of-date A-Zs, he heads out into the wilderness of isolated extravagance apartment blocks in Brentford, the ruins of Lesnes Abbey near Thamesmead, as well as the ancient Lammas Lands in Leyton.

Denounced by his youthful sons being a ‘hippy wizard’, Rogers delves into a number of the forgotten stories rumbling under the tarmac of the town suburbs. Holy wells in Lewisham; wassailing in Clapton; a heretical fresco in West Ham. He encounters the Highwaymen of Hounslow Heath, Viet Cong vets still fighting Stanley Kubrick’s Total Metal Coat in Beckton, Dutch sailors marooned at Erith pier; and cyclists – without Bradley Wiggins’ sideburns – at Herne Hill Velodrome. He heads out to Uxendon Hill to witness the end of the world, Horsenden Hill to learn its story, and Tulse Hill towards the observatory from the Victorian Brian Cox.

This Other London will need you into the hinterland of the town. The London that is lived in; the London where workaday dormitory suburbs sit down atop a wealthy background that could competitor Westminster and Tower Bridge. In an age when no corner of the world has been still left untrampled-upon by hordes of tourists, it’s time to discover the miracles on our doorstep.

This Other London is your gateway through the underexplored nooks of London. As Pathfinder composed in 1911, ‘Adventure begins at house’.