THAMES: SACRED RIVER

Ackroyd, Peter

ISBN 10: 0701172843 / ISBN 13: 9780701172848

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2007

1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry the VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men and women who depend upon the river for their livelihoods. Matt pictorial boards. B/w and colour photos. xxi and 490 pages. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Top edge of text block a little grubby. Else contents clean. Pictorial wrap-around has a 'signed copy' circular sticker to front panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1831268

Inhaltsangabe:

Thames: Sacred River displays the same qualities as London: the biography: scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character. This hugely enjoyable book is packed with fascinating facts and insights: it will be another mammoth bestseller.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, 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 Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THAMES: SACRED RIVER
Verlag: Chatto & Windus
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Hardback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
Signiert: SIGNED - please see description for details.
Auflage: First edition.