Thames: The Biography by Ackroyd, Peter

Thames: The Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307389848)

Author: Peter Ackroyd
Product Type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Thames: The Biography by Ackroyd, Peter

Thames: The Biography

$21.00
Thames: The Biography by Ackroyd, Peter

Thames: The Biography

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. Thames: The Biography meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men and women who depend upon the river for their livelihoods. The Thames as a source of artistic inspiration comes brilliantly to life as Ackroyd invokes Chaucer, Shakespeare, Turner, Shelley, and other writers, poets, and painters who have been enchanted by its many moods and colors.

Author: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN-10: 0307389847
ISBN-13: 9780307389848
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2009
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.28w x 1.06d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/29/2009 pg. 24
By Peter Ackroyd
By Peter Ackroyd
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PETER ACKROYD is the author of London: The Biography, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, and Shakespeare: The Biography; acclaimed biographies of T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Sir Thomas More; thirteen novels; and the series Ackroyd's Brief Lives. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the South Bank Award for Literature. He lives in London.

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