Narrow Boat - Softcover

Rolt, L. T. C.

 
9780750960618: Narrow Boat
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0750960612 ISBN 13: 9780750960618
Verlag: The History Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

L T C ROLT was born in Chester on 9 February 1910 and died in 1974. He was an engineer and craftsman, whose passion for Britain's industrial heritage led him to become one of the foremost historians of the 20th century. He was joint founder of the Inland Waterways Association. He also wrote Narrow Boat, Red for Danger and the famous Landscape Trilogy.

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Verlag
The History Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0750960612
ISBN 13 
9780750960618
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Anzahl der Seiten
264
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