Back in stock! Mudlarking
Mudlarking has been selling continuously well all through lockdown and is a great hit with our customers. It is also Observer Book of the Year and won the 2020 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction. Want to know what all the fuss is about? Order your copy today and join Maiklem as she explores the banks of the River Thames.
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklam
Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for nearly twenty years, in pursuit of the objects the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hairpins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. What began as a search for solitude came to reveal the story of a city, its people and their lost ways of life.
Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it meets the sea in the east, Mudlarking is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, which Lara calls the longest archaeological site in England.
As she has discovered, it is often the tiniest objects that tell the greatest stories.
Order your copy today and see what all the fuss is about!
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