'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH,DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH,OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean,together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts,who said they would die,together with their whippet Jim.On the Phyllis May you dive through six-foot waves in the Channel,are swept down the terrible Rhne,and fight for your life in a storm among the flamingos of the Camargue.You meet the French nobody meets - poets,captains,historians,drunks,bargees,men with guns,scholars,madmen - they all want to know the people on the painted boat and their narrow dog.You visit the France nobody knows - the backwaters of Flanders,the canals beneath Paris,the heavenly Yonne,the lost Burgundy Canal,the islands of the Sane,and the forbidden ways to the Mediterranean.Aliens,dicks,trolls,vandals,gongoozlers,killer fish and the walking dead all stand between our three innocents and their goal - many-towered Carcassonne.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdISBN: 9780553816693Number of pages: 432Weight: 293 gDimensions: 198 x 127 x 26 mm
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A richly atmospheric journey suffused with summer heat and occasional cabin fever,reaching its climax on the flamingo-studded inland sea of the Camargue... The writing is as muscular and lean as its canine hero,conjuring up dawn mist or giant catfish in prose haiku before moving on to the next killer one-liner... A rich and winning comic debut,destined to become a classic of the downshifting genreA stunning book - racy,chatty,touching and very,very funnyThe most amazing canal journey of them allOne of my favourite books of the yearAn astonishing read
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