Around Britain by canal : 1000 miles of waterways
Burton, Anthony
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This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old industrial towns. It is a journey that proved full of surprises, delights and rich variety, as the book clearly demonstrates. The book illustrates the great contrasts between travelling on the wide tidal waters of the River Trent and being overtaken by sea-going cargo ships, to meadnering along the sinuous curves of the Oxford Canal. The Leeds & Liverpool Canal brought magnificent moorland scenery and the drama of the great five-lock staircase at Bingley. London was seen from two very different perspectives. Travelling past the elegant houses of Little Venice and Regents Park and then turning back along the Thames to float past the Houses of Parliament. The author finds as much pleasure in the hidden corners of Birmingham as in the rural beauties of Shropshire. The book has become regarded as a classic of canal travel, and is reissued with previously unpublished color photographs taken by Phillip Lloyd, who shared the trip with the author.
Main title:
Around Britain by canal : 1000 miles of waterways / Anthony Burton
Author:
Imprint:
Yorkshire : Pen & Sword, 2018.
Collation:
200 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Chapter 1: On Back Doors; Chapter 2: The Heart of England; Chapter 3: Brummagem; Chapter 4: Provincial Pleasures; Chapter 5: Mills and Hills; Chapter 6: Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax -- and Aeroplanes and Ice; Chapter 7: The Cotton Kingdom; Chapter 8: Pennine Way; Chapter 9: Tom Pudding Land; Chapter 10: Burton on Trent; Chapter 11: Old Towns; Chapter 12: New Towns; Chapter 13: Homage to Brindley; Chapter 14: Down the Thames; Chapter 15: London, Back Door and Front; Chapter 16: Home Counties Crawl; Chapter 17: Journey's End.
ISBN:
9781473893238
Dewey class:
386.48
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
361250
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 386.48 ARO | Available |