The Thames
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: February 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780316861397
Subjects: British & Irish history; South & South East England; History: World
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.