An expert introduction to narrowboats, this book also covers wider canal craft and is a guide to the heritage of the working canals.
It includes photographs of boats on the inland waterways today, as well as others that illustrate the techniques of canal boating and chronicle some of the groups who work to preserve craft and use them for education, pleasure and trade.
Older photographs show the working boats against the background of industry and the historic canals. There is a section listing a range of contacts, museums and societies, to help the reader search out craft around the waterways.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Broad and narrow waterways
Barges
Where did narrowboats come from?
Construction and Propulsion
Boat-builders and types of boat
Working cargoes
Boats today
Further reading
Museums
Societies
Websites
