Thames Estuary Trail: A Walk Round the End of the World

About this book

The hilarious adventures of local newspaper reporter Tom King, as he sets out to blaze a trail round his own backyard. The Thames Estuary has existed for aeons. The earliest known humans in Britain set up home on its shores. Yet until now, nobody seems to have thought of walking round it. As he stumbled round the unfashionable end of the Thames, accompanied by his history-hating dog, the author began to understand just why. There were endless mishaps, often brought about by journalistic nosiness, the search for stories, and the mud. Yet along the way, as he discovered and recalled the people, places, secrets and wild creatures of this unexpected wilderness, something astonishing happened. He fell in love with it.