Narrow Boat

First published in 1944, and now reissued over 60 years on, this fully illustrated book has become...
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SKU: 9780750960618
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Author: L. T. C. Rolt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Narrow Boat by Rolt, L. T. C.

Narrow Boat

€51,35

Narrow Boat

€51,35
Author: L. T. C. Rolt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
First published in 1944, and now reissued over 60 years on, this fully illustrated 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 which have now all but disappeared.

Author: L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher: History Press
Published: 10/01/2014
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780750960618

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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