SWINGING THE LAMP

Book number: 93775 Product format: Paperback Author: NICK ARDLEY

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The Lower Thames Estuary has many picturesque rivers that feed it and the author loves to stop awhile and ponder, drift into shallow anchorages for a night or two and investigate the local shores. 'Pleasant moments are spent pottering through the Saltings on miniature voyages of discovery in a little gunter-rigged tender... away from man's hard edges, terrain that was once dry land is luxuriant with salt tolerant plant life...' Pure salt water courses through Nick Ardley's veins. He was brought up on a Thames spritsail barge - the ones with the deep red sails which glide by still today. He sailed the high seas on ocean going ships and with his mate beside him, he has weaved his way through the Thames Estuary's tidal creeks and rivers for many years, mostly aboard his clinker sloop. The Estuary is an artery of modern commerce, but the remaining vestiges of past industry pepper its rivers and creeks. Flooded islands have become the domain of myriad birds, nesting on hummocks of saltings and feeding on mudflats. There are rotting wharves festooned with bladderwrack alive with life, the time-worn ribs of barges the perch for cormorants. Around all of that, man has created new uses for disused lime, cement and brick docks. Boatyards, marinas and waterside housing has emerged from the industrial ashes. Beneath his boat's swinging lamp, the author muses about old souls, shoal draft yachts with great enthusiasm for the environment in this little corner of England. 76 colour photos plus archive photos and maps. 191 page large softback.

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