Maidens' Trip by Emma Smith (Paperback, 2011)
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Maidens' Trip. Informative and fascinating, it breathes new life into England's canals and is vivacious, entertaining and poignant. A pure delight. by Emma Smith. 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.
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781408801253
eBay Product ID (ePID)180278352
Product Key Features
Publication Year2011
TopicMemorials, Ships
Book TitleMaidens' Trip
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorEmma Smith
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight196 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorEmma Smith
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- 31 Mar, 2021
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-owned
- 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-owned
- 17 May, 2018
Maidens' Trip
Adapted format but enjoyable read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 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: New
- 13 Nov, 2018
Great story
Very well written tale of girls on a working narrowboat.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Nov, 2020
Brilliant
It was a gift but was told it was an excellent read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Aug, 2021
Very Good
Hello This is a very good book of the period. JohnVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Jul, 2016
Lightweight
This book is an interesting lightweight read but it always leaves you wanting to know the next bit.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 01 Aug, 2016
Good value....as new.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 Jul, 2020
Great book
Great bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
