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| The Water Road: An Odyssey by Narrowboat Through England's Waterways | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul Gogarty
Publisher: Robson Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 28247
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 364
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 1861056559
Dewey Decimal Number: 623
EAN: 9781861056559
ASIN: 1861056559
Publication Date: May 29, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: slight damage to front cover
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 The Water Road an Odysey by Narrowboat through England's Wat August 6, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a highly evocative book which proves irresistible reading, especially if you find canals themselves just as irresistible. Gogarty is a natural with a penchant for descriptive phrases which leave little to the imagination. It's one of the best books I have read in a long time.
celebrating canals November 8, 2002
38 out of 38 found this review helpful
The Water Road is a book for narrowboaters, towpath walkers, armchair travellers and those who just love quirky reads about Britain. Gogarty's solo journey through backdoor England is indeed an odyssey, with a cast of hundreds of the delightful characters he discovered populating the inner waterways. Until now books on the canals have been dry historical tomes. At last we have a classic of our time which celebrates the renaissance of the British waterways. Gogarty's journey of 920 miles took him 4 months. I finished it in 3 days as I just couldn't put it down.
Secret England outed October 25, 2002
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
Gogarty's Water Road runs the risk of alienating all the people he met on his trip up and down Englands waterways, for outing one the UK's best kept secrets. This thoroughly enjoyable read describes an almost Narnia-like world that exists right under our noses, and which this book will make you want to reach out and grab. Those who live the life that this author had a taste of, whilst researching this beautifully written, and colourfully described travelogue, are truly lucky. Whilst the rest of us fret about credit card repayments and Bush and Iraq, the people on the water road glide happily by, oblivious in their charmed world. I wouldn't mind betting that this book will become the modern equivalent of Rolt's 1940s classic 'Narrow Boat', which has been in print ever since.
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