Author: Roger Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A Description of the River Thames
Author: Roger Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A Description of the River Thames &c
Author: Roger Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Description of the River Thames, &c., with the City of London's Jurisdiction and Conservancy Thereof Proved Both in Point of Right and Usage by Prescription, Charters, Acts of Parliament, Decrees ...
Author: Roger Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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A Description of the River Thames, with the City of London's Jurisdiction (etc.)
Author: Robert Binnell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Pilot's Guide for the River Thames
Author: J. C. Imray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Mudlarking
Author: Lara Maiklem
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140888920X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
_______________ WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR _______________ Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about London and its lost ways of life. Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it meets the sea in the east, Mudlarking is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, which Lara calls the longest archaeological site in England. As she has discovered, it is often the tiniest objects that tell the greatest stories. _______________ 'Enchanting' - Sunday Times 'Driven by curiosity, freighted with mystery and tempered by chance, wonders gleam from every page' - Melissa Harrison 'Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes' - Sunday Telegraph 'The very best books that deal with the past are love letters to their subject, and the very best of those are about subjects that love their authors in return. Such books are very rare, but this is one' - Ian Mortimer 'Fascinating. There is nothing that Maiklem does not know about the history of the river or the thingyness of things' - Guardian 'A treasure. One of the best books I've read in years' - Tracy Borman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140888920X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
_______________ WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR _______________ Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about London and its lost ways of life. Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it meets the sea in the east, Mudlarking is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, which Lara calls the longest archaeological site in England. As she has discovered, it is often the tiniest objects that tell the greatest stories. _______________ 'Enchanting' - Sunday Times 'Driven by curiosity, freighted with mystery and tempered by chance, wonders gleam from every page' - Melissa Harrison 'Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock Holmes' - Sunday Telegraph 'The very best books that deal with the past are love letters to their subject, and the very best of those are about subjects that love their authors in return. Such books are very rare, but this is one' - Ian Mortimer 'Fascinating. There is nothing that Maiklem does not know about the history of the river or the thingyness of things' - Guardian 'A treasure. One of the best books I've read in years' - Tracy Borman
Bibliotheca Cantiana
Author: John Russell Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Thames: Sacred River
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0099422557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 magisterial prose; the result is a wonderfully readable and captivating guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0099422557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 magisterial prose; the result is a wonderfully readable and captivating guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it.
Bibliotheca Cantiana: a Bibliographical Account of what Has Been Published on the History, Topography, Antiquities ... of the County of Kent
Author: John Russel Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: John Parker Anderson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.