Narrow Boat - Softcover

L T C Rolt

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9780750908061: Narrow Boat
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0750908068 ISBN 13: 9780750908061
Publisher: Alan Sutton Pub, 2000

Synopsis

First published in 1944, this book has been said by many 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 is 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.

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About the Author

L. T. C. ROLT trained as an engineer, but his fame rests on his classic biographies of Brunel, Telford, Trevithick, and the Stephensons, his superb volumes of autobiography ("Landscape with Machines," "Landscape with Canals," and "Landscape with Figures"), his volumes of transport history, and "Red for Danger," an account of railway disasters of Britain. He founded the Inland Waterways Association and was instrumental in encouraging interest in Britain's industrial heritage at Tal-y-llyn and elsewhere.

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Publisher
Alan Sutton Pub
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0750908068
ISBN 13 
9780750908061
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
212
Rating
  • 3.98 out of 5 stars
    231 ratings by Goodreads

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