Peter Ackroyd: Thames: Sacred River
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Жанр: Random House, Inc.
Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008
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.