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Thames: Sacred River | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Vintage Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 20674
Media: Paperback
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.6
ISBN: 0099422557
EAN: 9780099422556
Publication Date: November 4, 2008
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The Historical Flow of a Great River December 17, 2008
Ian Gordon Malcomson (Smithers, Canada)
In this popular history of the Thames River, Peter Ackroyd, the notable British biographer, offers his readers rich vistas as the length and breadth of one of the world's most recognized and talked about waterways. After reading about its origins, its myths, its geological dimensions, its evolving communities, its bridges, and its many treacherous moods, I am left with the indelible impression that the Thames is really more than a riverine channel or basin through which large bodies of water run down hill towards the ocean. Wherever the Thames flows it, according to Ackroyd, it connects the events of history through towns, villages, and battle sites; it moves people across undulating landscapes by the most natural of liquid highways; and it poses some of the biggest challenges to man's ingenuity to overcome physical obstacles. This work is a multifaceted story in which Ackroyd effectively uses colorful anecdotes, lots of relevant facts, and a fair sprinkling of poetic license and humor to capture the epic greatness of the Thames. What Ackroyd does in his book is take the power and majesty of an ordinary river and make it come alive in the reader's mind. After consuming even a small fraction of the vast amount of detail the writer offers, a reader might be excused for thinking that he or she has actually visited this stretch of colorful landscape called the Thames. Great read for those who want to go with the flow and ingest a little of the lesser known history of southeastern England as found in this river.
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