Offshore (novel)
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Offshore is a 1979 novel by British writer Penelope Fitzgerald. It was the recipient of the 1979 Booker Prize. The book explores the emotional restlessness of houseboat dwellers who live neither fully
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River Thames
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The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At 215 miles, it is the longest river entirely in England and the sec
Offshore (novel)
…fully on the water nor fully on the land. It was inspired by the most difficult years of Fitzgerald's own life, years during which she lived on an old Thames sailing barge moored at Battersea Reach. Set in 1961, the novel follows an eccentric community of houseboat owners whose permanently moored craft cluster…
Panorama of the River Thames, Tower Bridge and the City of London
Image of the deity Æsus on the Gallo-Roman "Pillar of the Boatmen"
A statue of Old Father Thames by Raffaelle Monti at St John's Lock, Lechlade
Sculpture of Tamesis. Downstream keystone of the central arch of Henley Bridge