Description
Narrow Boat is Tom Rolt’s wonderful tale of the 400-mile voyage in narrow boat Cressy through the canals of the Midlands in 1939-40. The book tells of how Rolt and his wife adapted Cressy as their home and recalls their long journey and the boatmen and craft they met along the way.
Narrow Boat is a beautifully-written, classic elegy for a world now lost to us. It was greeted with great enthusiasm on its publication just before the end of the War and led to the formation of the Inland Waterways Association, and so to the rescue of many of Britain's canals.
The new ebook edition of Narrow Boat contains more than eighty illustrations including both the delightful drawings by Denys Watkins-Pitchford and the photographs by Angela Rolt on which they were based.
Reviews
"As Editor of Waterways World magazine I spoke with many early canal enthusiasts. Asked what had attracted them to the waterways they would say, almost without exception, 'reading Narrow Boat'" Hugh Potter in a new introduction for the 2013 eBook edition
“There is no better description of a landscape and life that is now a distant memory” Journey of the Railway and Canal Historical Society
"An elegy of classic restraint unmarred by any trace of sentiment. His pen is as sure as the brush of a Cotman. Narrow Boat will go on the shelf with White and Cobbett and Hudson" Sir Compton Makenzie
