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Author : Emma SMITH (Novelist.)
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : British Museum
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
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Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 1931
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1964
Category : English imprints
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Books
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Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Canals
ISBN : 9780747598961
Emma sets out with Nanette and Charity on a big adventure- three eighteen-year-old girls, freed from a conventional middle-class background, precipitated into the world of the boating fraternity. Never before had they met such people, the women with plaited hair and gold earrings, the men with choker scarves and darkly sunburnt faces, whole families existing for generation after generation on boats painted the brilliant colours of blue and scarlet, white and glossy black, living hard but undisturbed lives - until the arrival of these incomprehensible young creatures from another planet. Presented with the motor boat Venus and its butty boat, the Ariadne, the three girls embark on their maiden trip. They learn how to handle a pair of seventy-two foot-long canal boats, how to carry a cargo of steel north from London to Birmingham and, on the return journey south, coal from Coventry; how to navigate hazardous locks in the apparently unceasing rain; how to splice ropes, bail out bilge water, keep the engine ticking over and steer through tunnels. They live off kedgeree and fried bread and jam, adopt a kitten, lose their bicycles, laugh and quarrel and get progressively dirtier and tougher as the weeks go by. First published in 1948, Maidens' Trip is a classic memoir of the growth to maturity of three young women in the exceptional circumstances of Britain at war. Informative and fascinating, it breathes new life into England's canals and is vivacious, entertaining and poignant. A pure delight.
Author : British Museum
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Best books
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Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Boat living
ISBN : 9780750960618
Take a trip down the waterways of England during their hey-day
Author : Susan Woolfitt
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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