Via email to Mayhem...Hi Martin,
Do you do book reviews? If so, Amberley Publishing has produced a large number of books that might interest your readers,
including our latest book 'Ferries of the Lower Thames’ by Joan Tucker. I have attached an information sheet to tell you a bit
more about it. Please let me know if you would be interested in receiving a complementary review copy of the book, and do
check out our website,
www.amberley-books.com, where there are tonnes more books on boats and buyers can get a
10% discount.
Kind regards,
Nicki
The Lower Thames covers an area from Colne Brook, Staines, to Yantlet Creek in north Kent. With the cost of bridging the river being so huge, and the engineering difficulties so difficult to overcome, many crossings of the river were by ferry, even until quite recent times. Some, such as at Woolwich and Gravesend-Tilbury still are, although many bridges and tunnels have been built in the past few hundred years. Joan Tucker tells the stories of the many ferries which once criss-crossed the river.
We tend to associate the more recent ferries with the Thames but the legacy of the ferries now replaced by bridges include such names as Ferry Road in Richmond and slipways which now serve pleasure boats in various boroughs alongside the Thames.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Publication: April 2010
Price: £19.99
ISBN: 978-1-84868-968-8
Size: 248 x 172mm
Binding: Paperback
Extent: 192 pages
Author
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