
Estuary: Out from London to the Sea (Paperback)
Rachel Lichtenstein (author)Published: 07/09/2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017
A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick Lane
Out at the eastern edge of England, between land and ocean, you will find beautiful, haunted salt marshes, coastal shallows and wide-open skies: the Thames Estuary. The estuary is an ancient gateway to England, a passage for numberless travellers in and out of London. And for generations, the people of Kent and Essex have lived and worked on the Estuary, learning its waters, losing loved ones to its deeps. Their heritage is a proud but never an easy one. In the face of a world changing around them, they endure.
Rachel Lichtenstein spent five years exploring this unique community and recording its extraordinary chorus of voices, present and past. From mud larkers and fishermen to radio pirates and champion racers, from buried princesses to unexploded bombs, Estuary is a celebration of a haunting & profoundly British place.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141018539
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 268 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Rachel Lichtenstein's electrifying exploration of the estuary * Spectator *
The Thames Estuary changes constantly. How do you make such a landscape comprehensible, and how do you render it vividly for the reader? Lichtenstein's outstanding book shows how it should be done. * Irish Times *
Immersive, engrossing, evocative * The Lady *
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“Unreadable”
I am interested in the sea and in anything to do with London but having dragged my way to the halfway point of this book I gave up as I found it dreary, turgid and, a rarity for me, unreadable. The hardback is not... More
“Well, I enjoyed it.”
I liked the slow pace and inconsequential facts as we went along. Suited the edgelands subject matter. Don't know why the photos were so poor - perhaps they were grey and muddy, like the estuary.
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