About this Item First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean square and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 319pp, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour. Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths, from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes to Victorian toys. These objects tell her about London and its lost ways of life. Moving from the river's tidal origins in the west of the city to the point where it meets the sea in the east 'Mudlarking' is a search for urban solitude and history on the River Thames, which Lara calls the longest archaeological site in England. As she has discovered, it is often the tiniest