Water ways : a thousand miles along Britain's canals
Winn, Jasper2018
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Place reservation for Water ways : a thousand miles along Britain's canalsFor 150 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.
Main title:
Water ways : a thousand miles along Britain's canals / Jasper Winn.
Author:
Winn, Jasper, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2018.
Collation:
384 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Map on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781781257951 (hbk)
Dewey class:
386.480941914.10486386.4809914.104
LC class:
HE435
Local class:
914.1914.104
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2254928
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