- Publisher: Atlantic
- Year: 2018
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 198x129mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781786496409
- Product code: 512506
Sweet Thames
New Paperback
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Set during the cholera epidemic of the 1840s, this adventure follows an idealistic young engineer who finds himself drawn into London’s underworld of slum-dwellers and scavengers in search of his missing wife.
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In the summer of 1849, cholera threatens the city and the people of London. The authorities send millions of gallons of sewage cascading into the Thames - for many Londoners the only source of drinking water.
Joshua Jeavons, a young and idealistic engineer, embarks on an obsessive quest to find the cause of the epidemic. As he labours in a fog of incomprehension, his domestic life is troubled by the baffling coldness of his beautiful bride, Isobella. But when she suddenly disappears, his desperate search for her takes him to a netherworld of slum-dwellers, pickpockets and scavengers of subterranean London.
Joshua Jeavons, a young and idealistic engineer, embarks on an obsessive quest to find the cause of the epidemic. As he labours in a fog of incomprehension, his domestic life is troubled by the baffling coldness of his beautiful bride, Isobella. But when she suddenly disappears, his desperate search for her takes him to a netherworld of slum-dwellers, pickpockets and scavengers of subterranean London.
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Set during the cholera epidemic of the 1840s, this adventure follows an idealistic young engineer who finds himself drawn into London’s underworld of slum-dwellers and scavengers in search of his missing wife.
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Atlantic
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