Author: Peel, J. H. B.:
Title: Portrait of The Thames From Teddington To The Source.
Description: London, Robert Hale, 1976 Hard cover blue cloth bds, unclipped dust jacket, flaps stuck down to pastedowns, VG+, a little wavy at rear, edges slightly furled, ffep has been torn away, lib. stamps to half title and title verso, contents nice and tight, b/w plates through text, map, pp207, small age-spot to leading pge edge block leaks in to pges 97-101 - very shallow. "...the Thames is more than a history book, more than a galaxy of splendid architecture. This protrait reveals those features; but chiefly it is an evocation of the river between Teddington and its source in a Gloucestershire meadow, by day and night, through the four seasons of the year."

Keywords: river Cookham Thames source seasons Sonning Mapledurham Goring Radley Eynsham Lechlade Kemble Runnymede Hampton Court history Windsor Castle Cliveden Oxford Hurley Lock 070910748X


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