The Frozen Thames

Great book for a book group!

...Pat & Alan Fowler spent a year living on the Thames on their Dutch Barge, Zee Otter, which they pyurchased in March 1995 in Chertsey, Surrey. In the Fall, friends Lesley & Frank Costello helped them move the barge to London to the Cruising Association dock in Limehouse. In Summer 1996, they traveled all the way up to Oxford and on June 26, 1996 they traveled to the mouth of the Thames, with a RN Commander aboard to help them navigate across the Channel to France.

The Thames didn't freeze while they were in England.

The Frozen Thames (Hardcover)

By Helen Humphreys

$22.00

ISBN-13: 9780385342810
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Delacorte Press, 3/2009

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In its long history, the river Thames has frozen solid forty times. These are the stories of that frozen river.

So begins this breathtaking and original work, which contains forty vignettes based on events that actually took place each time the historic Thames froze solid. Spanning more than seven centuries—from 1142 to 1895—and illustrated with stunning full-color period art, The Frozen Thames is an achingly beautiful feat of the imagination…a work of fiction that transports us back through history to cast us as intimate observers of unforgettable moments in time.

Whether we’re viewing the magnificent spectacle of King Henry VIII riding across the ice highway (while plotting to rid himself of his second wife) or participating in a joyous Frost Fair on the ice, joining lovers meeting on the frozen river during the plague years or coming upon the sight of a massive ship frozen into the Thames…these unforgettable stories are a triumph of the imagination as well as a moving meditation on love, loss, and the transformative powers of nature.

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