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A Mudlark's Treasures - London in Fragments (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 490
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A Mudlark's Treasures - London in Fragments (Paperback)
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Loot Price R249
Discovery Miles 2 490
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Mudlarking enthusiast Ted Sandling takes us on a riveting journey
along the Thames foreshore and back into the past. 'A beautiful
book.' Daily Mail 'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard
'Gripping.' Spectator 'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively 'Indefatigably
researched.' Country Life 'Wonderful, quirky.' Tracy Chevalier
Mudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of
value, has a long tradition in London. In the late 18th and 19th
centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap.
Modern-day mudlark Ted Sandling shares his passion for unearthing
relics of the past from the banks of the Thames and describes his
fifty most evocative finds. From Roman tiles to elegant Georgian
pottery, these objects create a mosaic of everyday London life
through the centuries, touching on the journeys, pleasures, vices
and industries of a world city. This book celebrates the beauty of
small things, and the intangible connection that found objects give
us to the past. The Thames presents treasures with a delightful
serendipity: it gives up a hundred random objects, and it is up to
the finder to discover their stories. That is the joy of
mudlarking: that after every trip to the river you know more than
you did before. Chance connections with something that was once
treasured, that was once lost and has now been found again. Even
the meanest broken fragments tells a story of this great city. 'The
significance of these fragments lies in the stories they tell us
about the everyday lives of the people to whom there are no
monuments or blue plaques.' TLS A fully illustrated edition of this
book is also available under the title LONDON IN FRAGMENTS: A
Mudlark's Treasures.
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