Home All Fiction Books Sweet Thames
1 1

Sweet Thames

Sweet Thames

Matthew Kneale

London, 1849. As an epidemic of cholera draws nearer to the capital, Joshua Jeavons, engineer, is working on his idea for a great drain plan for London, to be presented to a competition of the metropolitan committee for sewers.
£2.69 GBP
RRP £9.99 GBP £2.69 GBP
Sold out
Tax included.

Condition: Used - Good
View full details

Summary

London in the summer of 1849. With a deadly cholera epidemic threatening, young engineer Joshua Jeavons is convinced it is his mission to save the capital and reform its festering sewers. Meanwhile in his dometsic life he is troubled by the baffling coldness shown towards him by his beautiful bride, Isobella. As he struggles to win her round, he works feverishly on a revolutionary drainage plan. This is his dream, his dazzling vision of the future: a London free of effluent. Then a sudden and mystifying disappearance throws his whole life upside-down. He is forced to embark on a harrowing search, which plucks him from his respectable life and throws him into a London previously unknown to him. A netherworld of slum-dwellers, pickpockets and scavengers of the sewers. He will find it is this very world that holds unexpected answers to the mysteries that surround him.

Product Description

Title - Sweet Thames

Edition -

Author - Matthew Kneale

ISBN 13 - 9780140296631

Imprint - Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher - Penguin Books Ltd

Date Published - 26/04/2001

Prize -

No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 131 x 201 x 20mm

Weight - 264 g

Languages - English