The Narrow Boat Book

This book is out of print.  The copies available are second hand, in near-as-new or very good condition.  Published by Whittet Books. Today, narrow boats take families on holiday, but for over a century at the heart of the industrial revolution, they were the contemporary juggernauts, travelling sometimes 24 hours a day with vital cargoes of coal, food and manufactured goods; the canals were as as well known and as celebrated as the modern motorways.  Canal people lived a colourful, cosy, nomadic life, with their own customs, culture and morality.