Thames: Sacred River
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Beneath the grey skies of England, the Thames has flowed silently through millennia of human ambition, worship, tragedy, and transformation — and in Thames: Sacred River, Peter Ackroyd presents this ancient waterway not merely as a geographical feature, but as the living, breathing soul of a civilisation. Tracing the river from its mystical source in the Cotswold hills to its vast tidal reaches near the sea, Ackroyd chronicles the Thames as a sacred artery that has shaped the spiritual, cultural, and commercial identity of Britain across thousands of years. He uncovers the river's layered history through the eyes of the many who have lived, worked, worshipped, and died upon its banks — from prehistoric tribes and Roman conquerors to medieval merchants, Romantic poets, and Victorian engineers. Ackroyd's signature prose style — richly associative, deeply atmospheric, and unapologetically literary — transforms what might have been a conventional history into a visionary meditation on time, place, and memory. Drawing on archaeology, mythology, literature, and personal observation, he argues that the Thames possesses an almost spiritual consciousness that has quietly presided over the making of England itself. A masterwork of psychogeography from one of Britain's most celebrated authors, Thames: Sacred River leaves the reader wondering whether it is London that shapes the river, or the river that has always shaped London.
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Format: Hardback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Beneath the grey skies of England, the Thames has flowed silently through millennia of human ambition, worship, tragedy, and transformation — and in Thames: Sacred River, Peter Ackroyd presents this ancient waterway not merely as a geographical feature, but as the living, breathing soul of a civilisation. Tracing the river from its mystical source in the Cotswold hills to its vast tidal reaches near the sea, Ackroyd chronicles the Thames as a sacred artery that has shaped the spiritual, cultural, and commercial identity of Britain across thousands of years. He uncovers the river's layered history through the eyes of the many who have lived, worked, worshipped, and died upon its banks — from prehistoric tribes and Roman conquerors to medieval merchants, Romantic poets, and Victorian engineers. Ackroyd's signature prose style — richly associative, deeply atmospheric, and unapologetically literary — transforms what might have been a conventional history into a visionary meditation on time, place, and memory. Drawing on archaeology, mythology, literature, and personal observation, he argues that the Thames possesses an almost spiritual consciousness that has quietly presided over the making of England itself. A masterwork of psychogeography from one of Britain's most celebrated authors, Thames: Sacred River leaves the reader wondering whether it is London that shapes the river, or the river that has always shaped London.