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  • Discovering England from One Inch above the Thames

    Discovering England from One Inch above the Thames

    by Jim Payne This book recounts the American Jim Payne’s, kayaker voyage down the Thames in 2011. The visit to Lechlade is in chapter 4. Among other things, Jim wanders the churchyard and is prompted to write a poem (page 35), just as Percy Shelley did nearly 200 years earlier. He reports on his visit…