
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 & the boats that ply its surface; about floods & tides; hauntings & suicides; miasmas & malaria; locks weirs & embankments; bridges docks & palaces Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising & entertaining details & for writing about them in the most magisterial prose; the result is a wonderfully readable & captivating guide to this extraordinary river & the towns & villages which line it