Upriver
Iain Sinclair: The Thames, 25 June 2009
Thames: Sacred River
by Peter Ackroyd.
Vintage, 608 pp., £14.99, August 2008,978 0 09 942255 6 Show More
by Peter Ackroyd.
Vintage, 608 pp., £14.99, August 2008,
“... source. My bias, which I will attempt to overcome, tends towards the more cynical view ascribed to William Burroughs by Jack Kerouac. ‘When you start separating the people from their rivers what have you got? Bureaucracy!’ Having triumphantly ghosted London’s autobiography, Ackroyd’s obvious follow-up was the Thames: generator of life, origin of ... ”