The Thames
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780300107869
Subjects: History; History - General History; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / General; Europe - General; London (England); Thames River (England)
First sentence: The sea ends, the river starts, somewhere inside the great, wide, funnel-shaped estuary called the Nore, whose easternmost boundaries we set arbitrarily at Whitstable on the south, and Foulness Point on the north; somewhere within this vast basin at the edge of the Thames where the English fleet used to anchor, sails furled, ropes coiled, taking on supplies and waiting for orders.