The River That Shaped a City and Its History
by
Gavin Weightman
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Without the Thames, there would be no London or England. From earliest times, the city's needs--whether for stone, gold, or coal, for hay to feed livestock or food, wine and spices for human beings--were supplied from the river, as the fierce tides brought ships upstream or carried them down again....