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The River: The Thames in Our Time (Hardcover)

by Patrick Wright (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Books; First Edition edition (28 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0563384786
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563384786
  • Product Dimensions: 25.5 x 19.8 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 223,191 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Thames traverses the whole fabric of English society and landscape. In this book the author explores the many diverse aspects of the river, its architecture, art, history, literature, industry, and recreation, by talking to the many unusual characters who live and work on or near the river.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A book about real people, 12 May 2001
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This book accompanies a BBC TV series which I missed out on completely - dammit! It takes us up and down the River, beginning with tales from the Estuary, of eccentrics and idealists and fatal mists, and ending in the pre-millennially supremely symbolic area of Docklands and the Dome. Wright's is a human, and therefore broadly socialist, take on the characters and constructions he encounters. A view familiar to fans of 'A Journey through the Ruins', his book about inner city life in post-war Britain, springing from his observations on tower-block life in Dalston, East London, very near my place of birth. There is much more social and topical than topographical observation here, and he covers much fascinating ground. He's happier and more interesting dealing with the immigrants and ex-East Enders at the Estuary end than the toffs nearer the source, but this is easy to read and hard to beat as a contemporary look at life along the Thames.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Wide-ranging account of Thames from a cosmopolitan angle, 15 April 2000
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The Thames has been written about by a seemingly infinite number of writers, and White adds an original and eclectic account to a vast body of work. The book covers its chosen topics thoroughly and with an eye for vivid anecdote. If there is a criticism to be made of it, it is that its very modernity seems to entail a lack of integration, and that its tone is cosmopolitan in a way that at times loses a sense of the Thames as a familiar, everyday presence for the many local communities along its course. It is a river densely populated at every turn with those who walked and worked its banks and waters in the past, and those who do so today. White's book has the strengths of 'coffee-table' publications, of which it is a high quality example. There is just a slight impression of an observor slightly ill at ease with his own culture. However, this review note is written from the point of view of a Thames user who most likes travelling on the Thames in a small, open boat, close to the bank and close to the water.
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