The Lower Reaches

by Martin Anderson

The Lower Reaches is framed within precise geography, the Lower Hope region of the Thames estuary where the author was born and grew up beside a river on which "the dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empire" floated. Anderson lived for decades in the Far East. His meditation interrogates the formation of national identity and freights with poignant significance the old maxim that so much of British history happened overseas.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848613113
• ISBN13: 9781848613119
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"