Thames: The Biography

USA: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2008. First US Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback First American Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Four eight page sections of full colour illustrations, four Maps of various sections of the Thames. Bright, clean pictorial cloth with scenes along the Thames by London; solid & tight binding, square with sharp corners. Deckle edge. Internals as new. Jacket is three-quarter size with scalloped upper edge, bright and clean with illustration of several people in a boat rowing on the Thames. Illustrated endpapers with London/Thames scenes. "Thames: The Biography" meanders like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about the connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry VIII, and writes memorable portraits of ordinary women and men who depend upon the river for their livlihoods. He visits all the towns and villages along the river from Oxfordshire to London and describes the royal residences, bridges, docks, locks and weirs, found along its 215-mile run. 481 pages with Bibliography and Index. 6.6 x 1.4 x 9.9 inches. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, 2008.