Author: Gordon Thorburn
Publisher: Jack Newman
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780752455020
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Author: Jim Batty
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-05-19
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1472927095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Full-time life on a narrowboat is a novelty for so many of us, and is endlessly fascinating. How do people downsize their lives and belongings into what looks like a large, crayon-coloured floating toy-box? Narrowboat Life answers all the questions we've wanted to ask about the ins and outs of liveaboard life on the inland waterways. The book is filled with beautiful, enthralling photography of the waterways themselves, the narrowboats that occupy them and, most importantly, every nook and cranny of their insides. Should you become seduced, the author gives solid hands-on advice about how to make a narrowboat your home. Accompanying these absorbing images, the playful and always informative text satisfies our curiosity to know, among other things: · How do you fit all of your stuff into such a restricted space? · How much does a narrowboat cost? · How do you hold down a job if you're always on the move? · Does s/he (the cat, dog, parrot) live on the boat as well? · Is it cold in the winter? Jim Batty has lived, worked and continuously cruised a 53-foot narrowboat with his partner and their cat for the past six years. The book answers a distillation of all the queries he has fielded on an almost daily basis since moving aboard – through towpath and lockside conversations with young couples, those close to retirement, single men and women of all ages, young families, tourists, as well as talking with a host of inquisitive (and initially uncomprehending) friends, relatives and colleagues. Everyone, it seems, wants to know exactly what the live aboard life is like: inside and out.
Author: Harvey Schwartz
Publisher:
Published: 2016-01-19
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780692624746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Buy a 90-year-old Dutch canal barge and cruise the canals and rivers of France. Eat snails. Drink Burgundy. Sounds like a retirement dream. Sometimes. In On a Barge in France Harvey Schwartz tells of the four years he and his wife, Sandra Hamilton, spent on Hoop Doet Leven on the French waterways. Each chapter presents a vignette of French country life and life in the unique linear village of international bargees traveling extremely slowly through the most beautiful, historic and mind boggling areas of France.
Author: L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780750960618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Take a trip down the waterways of England during their hey-day
Author: Charles T. O'Malley
Publisher: North Country Books Incorporated
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780925168382
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Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 604
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Publisher:
Published: 1983-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780852636510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stuart Fisher
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-09-22
Total Pages: 1036
ISBN-13: 1472903072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Canals of Britain is a comprehensive and absorbing survey of the entire canal network of the British Isles - the first of its kind. It provides a fascinating insight into the linked up waterways as well as the isolated cuts and quiet waters which may not be fully navigable by larger craft. Infinitely varied, it passes picturesque open countryside, wild moorland, coastal harbours, historic industrial buildings, modern city centres, canalside public houses and abundant wildlife. Stuart Fisher looks at every aspect of the canals - their construction, rich history, stunning scenery, heritage, incredible engineering, impressive architecture and even their associated folklore, wildlife and art. Enticing photographs give a flavour of each place and places of interest close to the canals are included. For those who are keen to explore that little bit further, taking smaller boats to points beyond which others usually turn back, there is information on little-known parts of the system, offering a new insight into this country's unique, surprising and beautiful canal network. Attractive, inspiring and foremost a practical guide, this has proved popular with canal enthusiasts and boaters wanting to get the most out of Britain's canals. This second edition features new canals and more colour photographs.