Comercio

1966 — Book is in excellent condition with a little wear to lower corners and a tiny bit of lower edge wear. Binding is in green cloth with black print. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows small tears, edge wear, sunning. Map endpapers, 224 pages, glossy paper section with b&w photos. Contents include: Celts and Christians, Fire, Pyre, Flood and Frost, Pollution and Bogglesloshing, Hellfire and regatta, The Hymen of London, etc. From the flyleaf: "The eye with which (the author) views the river is sharp and unsentimental; the style in which he reports what he sees is astringent and objective. He is entertainingly informative on such unpromising aspects as geology and pollution; his historical vignettes are exciting and colourful; and the people he meets during his journey are observed and reported without any concessions to conventional 'character sketching'. The mecilessly limned Australian bores aboard the river steamer, the indomitable mrs. Rockett with her devotion to the river that robbed her of her husband, and many others, spring sharply from the pages for the reader's enjoyment. This is a book that is refreshingly different from those that offer travelogue information, idyllic scenic descriptions, or personal prejudcies. it is in every sense revealing about the Thames; and it is also revealing about the personality of the author. There is an 'I' as well as a very keen Eye, on the river."