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LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017
An immersive, intimate journey into the world of the Thames Estuary and the people who spend their lives there
The Thames Estuary is one of the world's great deltas, providing passage in and out of London for millennia. It is silted up with…
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I read this straight after the Theroux. I wanted to stay near water. I live in London but know little about the areas beyond the part that flows through the central city. This book starts beyond the Thames we routinely see, where the river is becoming the sea and lives have to accommodate its rules.
I love industrial architecture, especially decaying and strange structures, and this book was a glorious tour of rusting sea forts, sunken vessels still full of wartime bombs, abandoned piers, hidden sandbanks in the river that wait to catch ships when the tide turns, which remind…
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