Books
Learn more about narrowboats on canals with this suggested booklist.
Narrowboat Planning: Designing The Interior Of Your Boat
The compact interiors of canal boats require careful planning to make the best use of the small space available. This book guides readers through all the factors that need to be considered to enable them to design a layout that best meets their accommodation needs.
Author: Graham Booth
ISBN: 1870002946
Waterways Past And Present
This is a unique photographic record of Britain's magnificent and varied waterways heritage. Through the superb photography of Derek Pratt, this book looks at 40 transitional years when Britain's inland waterways changed from being a thriving commercial transport system to the varied and beautiful pleasure cruising network it is today.
Author: Derek Pratt
ISBN: 0713676345
The Water Road: An Odyssey By Narrowboat Through England's Waterways
The Water Road is the story of a four-month circumnavigation by narrowboat of The Grand Cross, the name given to the inland waterway linking the Thames to the Humber, Severn and Mersey. Starting in London, Gogarty follows a figure of eight through Britain's major cities and across the Pennines.
Author: Paul Gogarty
ISBN: 1861056559
Narrow Boat
First published in 1944, this book has been said by many to have started a revival of interest in the English waterways. It was on a spring day in 1939 that LTC Rolt first stepped aboard Cressy. This is the story of how he and his wife adapted and fitted out the boat as a home and recreates the journey of some 400 miles that they made along the network of waterways in the Midlands.
Author: Charles Hadfield
ISBN: 0750908068
Canal Narrowboats And Barges
Although the days when inland waterways were used primarily for trade have passed, there remains afloat today a great variety of boats that once carried cargoes. This book is mainly an introduction to narrowboats but it also covers wider canal craft and will act as a guide to those who want to search out the heritage of the working canals.
Author: Tony Condor
ISBN: 0747805873
Midlands Canals: History Of The Canal Carriers
Robert Davies has compiled interviews with boat people and the people who worked the inland waterways during the final decades of commercial canal carrying, capturing the flavour of this era.
Author: Robert Davies
ISBN: 0752439103
