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River Effra: South London's Secret Spine
Jon Newman
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Description for River Effra: South London's Secret Spine
Paperback. River Effra: South London's Secret Spine is the first comprehensive account, beginning with its underlying geology and pre-history and continuing through to the river's ongoing significance today. Num Pages: 146 pages, 8 pp colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AMVD; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 219 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River Effra was one of these vanishings. In its earlier existence above ground it could only ever have been a modest tributary of the Thames, but through a vivid subterranean afterlife it has continued to impose itself on South London's development history and local mythology. Once fringed by willows and water meadows, it was the haunt of salmon, eels and herons until it fell ... Read more
London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River Effra was one of these vanishings. In its earlier existence above ground it could only ever have been a modest tributary of the Thames, but through a vivid subterranean afterlife it has continued to impose itself on South London's development history and local mythology. Once fringed by willows and water meadows, it was the haunt of salmon, eels and herons until it fell ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
146
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909930421
SKU
V9781909930421
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99-50
About Jon Newman
Jon Newman is a writer and archivist and works in London.
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