Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames

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Synopsis
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'A hybrid of personal memoir, London history and literary cabinet of curiosities' TelegraphMudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbourLara 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.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781408889206
Related ISBNs:
9781408889213
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Lara Maiklem
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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