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ISBN: 0750960612

ISBN13: 9780750960618

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First published in 1944, and now reissued with new black-and-white illustrations and a foreword by Jo Bell, Canal Laureate, this book has become a classic on its subject, and may be said to have started a revival of interest in the English waterways. It was on a spring day in 1939 that L.T.C. Rolt first stepped aboard Cressy. This engaging book tells the story of how he and his wife adapted and fitted out the boat as a home, and recreates the journey of some 400 miles that they made along the network of waterways in the Midlands. It recalls the boatmen and their craft, and celebrates the then seemingly timeless nature of the English countryside through which they passed. As Sir Compton Mackenzie wrote, 'it is an elegy of classic restraint unmarred by any trace of sentiment' for a way of life and a rural landscape that have now all but disappeared.

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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
NARROW BOAT

EXCELLENT. PASSED IT ON TO MY MOTHER, WHO'S FAMILY OWNED NARROW BOATS. A WONDERFUL ACCOUNT OF A BYGONE WAY OF LIFE.

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Rated 4 stars
Imagine an intimate space...a journey

...and lots of practical work. This volume contains such a story. The narrow boat, a relic of canal days in the U.K. and of my boyhood home near New York State's Erie Canal, has found a new vogue in England. This book, for all that it is a classic from 1944, tells the comprehensive story and tells it well by linking past to present. Of course, this is also "This Old House" on the water--a tale of a "fixer-upper" and of...

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