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Water Ways

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'Jasper Winn is the perfect guide' - Observer

For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a 'slow highways' network, a peaceful and countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday.

Writer and slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain's waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of 'wet roads and water streets' he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage and history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.

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'Jasper Winn is the perfect guide' - Observer

For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a 'slow highways' network, a peaceful and countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday.

Writer and slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain's waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of 'wet roads and water streets' he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage and history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.

9781781257968

A thousand miles along Britain's canals

Winn, Jasper

canal; canals; waterways; narrowboat; narrowboat pub; oxford canal; regent's canal; exeter canal; bridgewater canal; huddersfield narrow canal; stour river; grand western canal; llangollen canal; northwest canal; shropshire union canal; grand union canal; kennet and avon canal; royal military canal; stratford-upon-avon canal; dudley canal; walsall canal; leeds and liverpool canal; aire & calder; river lea; macclesfield canal; canal trip; british boating; the narrowboat guide toby jones; barging round britain john sergeant; canals of britain stuart fisher; the narrowboat nomads steve haywood; water gypsies a history of life on britain's rivers and canals julian dutton; uk holidays; british summer holidays; folk tales from the canal side ian douglas; the liveaboard guide

Descripción del producto

'Jasper Winn is the perfect guide' - Observer

For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a 'slow highways' network, a peaceful and countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday.

Writer and slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain's waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of 'wet roads and water streets' he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage and history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.

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'Jasper Winn is the perfect guide' - Observer

For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a 'slow highways' network, a peaceful and countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday.

Writer and slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain's waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of 'wet roads and water streets' he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage and history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.

9781781257968

A thousand miles along Britain's canals

Winn, Jasper

canal; canals; waterways; narrowboat; narrowboat pub; oxford canal; regent's canal; exeter canal; bridgewater canal; huddersfield narrow canal; stour river; grand western canal; llangollen canal; northwest canal; shropshire union canal; grand union canal; kennet and avon canal; royal military canal; stratford-upon-avon canal; dudley canal; walsall canal; leeds and liverpool canal; aire & calder; river lea; macclesfield canal; canal trip; british boating; the narrowboat guide toby jones; barging round britain john sergeant; canals of britain stuart fisher; the narrowboat nomads steve haywood; water gypsies a history of life on britain's rivers and canals julian dutton; uk holidays; british summer holidays; folk tales from the canal side ian douglas; the liveaboard guide

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canal;canals;waterways;narrowboat;narrowboat pub;oxford canal;regent's canal;exeter canal;bridgewater canal;huddersfield narrow canal;stour river;grand western canal;llangollen canal;northwest canal;shropshire union canal;grand union canal;kennet and avon canal;royal military canal;stratford-upon-avon canal;dudley canal;walsall canal;leeds and liverpool canal;aire &calder;river lea;macclesfield canal;canal trip;british boating;the narrowboat guide toby jones;barging round britain john sergeant;canals of britain stuart fisher;the narrowboat nomads steve haywood;water gypsies a history of life on britain's rivers and canals julian dutton;uk holidays;british summer holidays;folk tales from the canal side ian douglas;the liveaboard guide

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02/04/2020
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ISBN 9781781257968

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