Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd London souvenir how the British Industrial Revolution

how the British Industrial Revolution developed out of profits from the slave trade

This wooden pirate ship encourages imagination

Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here

red wellingtons and trusty hat

Surely the purr-fect gift

Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd London souvenir how the British Industrial RevolutionThames: 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 and the boats that ply its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces. Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most