Ackroyd Peter:
Thames
Sacred River
Vintage (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 512 pages
Size: 233x153 mm
ISBN: 9780099422556
ISBN-10: 0099422557
List price: £14.99
You save: 30%
Thames
Offers a guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it. Exploring its history since prehistoric times, this book shows the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.

