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Water Ways: A thousand miles along Britain's canals by Jasper Winn (Hardcover, 2018)

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Water Ways: A thousand miles along Britain's canals. Genre : Narrowboats & canals. Author : Winn, Jasper. Length : 22 cm. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing.

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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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PublisherProfile Books

ISBN-139781781257951

eBay Product ID (ePID)28046619319

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Publication Year2018

TopicNature, Ships

Book TitleWater Ways: a Thousand Miles Along Britain's Canals

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

AuthorJasper Winn

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height222 mm

Item Weight526 g

Item Width144 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorJasper Winn

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31 Jan, 2020
Nationwide canals
We are involved with the restoration of the Wey and Arun Canal and so find it interesting to read about the greater canal network and its history.
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by jampot-2007
01 Aug, 2018
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Very informative on a fascinating subject.
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