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ISBN-13
9781408801253
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ISBN
9781408801253
Publication Year
2011
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Maidens' Trip
Item Height
198 mm
Author
Emma Smith
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Topic
Memorials, Ships
Item Weight
196 g
Item Width
129 mm
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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In 1943 Emma Smith joined the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company under their wartime scheme of employing women to replace the boaters. She set out with two friends on a big adventure: three eighteen-year-olds, freed from a middle-class background, precipitated into the boating fraternity. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham and coal from Coventry; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine ticking over and steer through tunnels. They live off kedgeree and fried bread and jam, adopt a kitten, lose their bicycles, laugh and quarrel and get progressively dirtier and tougher as the weeks go by. Maidens' Trip is a classic memoir of the growth to maturity of three young women in the exceptional circumstances of Britain at war.

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Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781408801253
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Publication Year
2011
Topic
Memorials, Ships
Book Title
Maidens' Trip
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Author
Emma Smith
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
196 g
Item Width
129 mm

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United Kingdom
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Emma Smith

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  • by bronaghd2006
    31 Mar, 2021Most favourable review

    An interesting account of women serving in WW2

    Maidens' Trip (note correct use of the apostrophe) is a fictionalised account of her WW2 service on the English canals. A crew of 3 women took a pair of cargo-carrying narrow boats along the canals and cuts. Living conditions were cramped and the work was physically hard, but there was the companionship of fellow crew members and interesting encounters with others working on or by the canals, as well as the changing countryside.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: better_world_books_uk

  • by kevinleighfield
    16 Sep, 2021

    Good read.

    A great description of a period of history. Well written and a story of how hard Women worked during WW11 on the canal barges.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: musicmagpie

  • by emnal_44
    17 May, 2018

    Maidens' Trip

    Adapted format but enjoyable read.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: speedyhenuk

  • by boxy789
    18 Jul, 2019

    Good

    Not got to the end of the book yet! Reviewing wanted far too early on everything you buy! So far, I like it.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: hr1books

  • by lemmylaw
    25 Nov, 2018

    Great story

    Very well written tale of girls on a working narrowboat.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: awesomebooksuk

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