The Thames: Sacred RiverPeter Ackroyd (Author)《泰晤士小鎮》The Seine: The River that Made Paris Thames Town 上海郊區

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The Seine: The River that Made Paris Paperback – 2020年 9月 29日

作者 Elaine Sciolino (Author)

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An American Library in Paris "Coups de Coeur" Selection
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller

"Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer.… [She] has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light.” ―Edmund White, New York Times

Blending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sciolino explores the Seine through its lively characters―a bargewoman, a riverbank bookseller, a houseboat dweller, a famous cinematographer―and follows it from the remote plateaus of

The Thames: Sacred River Hardcover – International Edition, 2007年 10月 2日

作者 Peter Ackroyd (Author)

4.3 4.3 顆星，最高 5 顆星    118 個評分

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The Thames displays the same qualities as London: The Biography: scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place and character. It is hugely enjoyable and sure to be another mammoth bestseller.

The Thames is about the river from source to sea, from prehistoric times to the present, its flora and fauna, the paintings and photographs inspired by the Thames, its geology, smells and colours, its literature, laws, magic and myths, its architecture, trade and weather.

The reader learns about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply on its surface, about floods and tides, hauntings and suicides, miasmas and sewers, locks, weirs and embankments.

Here is Shelley floating on the river under poetical beech trees, Hogarth getting roaring drunk on a boat trip to Gravesend, William Morris wondering whether the same Thames water flowed past his windows in Hammersmith as flowed past his house at Kelmscott, 100 miles upriver.

Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising and entertaining details, and for writing about them in the most magisterial prose.

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With its red phone boxes, statue of Winston Churchill and Anglicized church, Thames Town looks just like an English city, but it was built to house suburban residents of Shanghai ‪#‎econarchive‬http://econ.st/1Gm1xGF

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