SEVEN RIVERS, a journey through the currents of human history

436pp., maps, paperback, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2025

ISBN: 9781474617239

The story of seven rivers: the Nile, Danube, Niger, Missisippi, Ganges, Yangtze and Thames. 

“This is history at its most scintillating. It’s an original, brilliantly-conceived book that will delight and excite. What a magnificent feat of imagination and of research to tell the human story through the beauty of water. These seven currents of time sparkle with erudition. With world rivers in crisis, this book should be essential reading for policy makers.” Nicholas Crane, author of The Making of the British Landscape and president of the Royal Geographical Society