Thames - Sacred River

Creasing to spine and foxing and marks to page edges.

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 embankmentsa; bridges, docks and palaces...