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Thames

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Description for Thames paperback. Tells the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, this book helps reader learn about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply its surface; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; and bridges, docks and palaces. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 38. Weight in Grams: 740.

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world, learning about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.

Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising and entertaining details, and for writing about them in the most ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099422556
SKU
9780099422556
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society ... Read more

Reviews for Thames
As rich and meandering and wonderful as its subject, this is one of the books of the year
Sunday Times
Mesmerising... No one is better than Ackroyd at evoking the texture and atmosphere of the distant past... Ackroyd's gift is to write history in the idiom of a poet. As soon as you open this account of the ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Thames


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