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Mudlarking - Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardcover)
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Mudlarking - Lost and Found on the River Thames (Hardcover)
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List price R596
Loot Price R507
Discovery Miles 5 070
You Save R89 (15%)
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THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
'Enchanting' Sunday Times
'Driven by curiosity, freighted with mystery and tempered by chance,
wonders gleam from every page' Melissa Harrison
'Brilliant. No one has looked at these odd corners since Sherlock
Holmes' Sunday Telegraph
'The very best books that deal with the past are love letters to their
subject, and the very best of those are about subjects that love their
authors in return. Such books are very rare, but this is one' Ian
Mortimer
'Fascinating. There is nothing that Maiklem does not know about the
history of the river or the thingyness of things' Guardian
'A treasure. One of the best books I've read in years' Tracy Borman
Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in
the mud of a river or harbour
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen
years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from
Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons,
Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about
London and its lost ways of life.
Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the
point where it meets the sea in the east, Mudlarking is a search for
urban solitude and history on the River Thames, which Lara calls the
longest archaeological site in England.
As she has discovered, it is often the tiniest objects that tell the
greatest stories.
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