London's Thames The River That Shaped a City And Its History

"Without the Thames there would be no London. From earliest times, the river supplied the city's needs, as the fierce tides brought ships upstream and carried them down again. Gavin Weightman's book is an introduction to the water and its ways, the buildings that line the banks, and the people who lived by the river, their customs and ancient knowledge. Everything is to be found here: trade and tide, lightermen, watermen and dockers, bridges, funnels and ferries, frost airs and regattas, clear water, fish and wildlife, pollution and waste, fortification and defense. Above all, one feels the presence of the great waterway itself - a force of nature in an urban midst."--BOOK JACKET.Weightman, Gavin is the author of 'London's Thames The River That Shaped a City And Its History', published 2005 under ISBN 9780312340179 and ISBN 0312340176.