The Four Counties Ring and the Cheshire Ring - two of the most popular and long established circular canal routes - are included in one guide book for the first time, forty two years after they first appeared in print as separate titles.

Along with the Caldon Canal and Weaver Navigation, this amounts to some 260 miles of inland waterway presented in the inimitable Pearson style with highly detailed, easy to follow maps, an informative and entertaining route commentary, and comprehensive listings of boating facilities, towpath conditions, places to eat and drink, shops, visitor attractions and public transport.  All the information the canal explorer needs in one beautifully presented and illustrated volume.

Pearson’s Canal Companions have been guiding people to a greater understanding of the inland waterways network for thirty-five years. They are the equivalent of a programme at a concert, theatre production or sporting event: a source of inspiration, interpretation and souvenir all wrapped up within one traditionally sign-written cover.

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Three quarters of a century ago a disparate band of determined individuals successfully campaigned to save the inland waterways from official indifference, preserving 18th and 19th century trade routes for a new role as a leisure resource without parallel.  Sadly, human memory is short - political memory shorter still - and today the underfunded canals and navigable rivers of England and Wales are again fighting an existential battle.  Pearson's Canal Companions have accurately chronicled the fortunes of the network for five decades, gaining a reputation for being as up to date as guide books possibly can be.  Espousing the Reithian tenets to inform, educate and entertain - or, in other words, facts, wisdom and wit - they encourage people of all persuasions to explore on or beside the water, giving them the key to a secret world many never knew existed.

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Canals turn Tourists into Pilgrims!  At three miles an hour - afoot or afloat - there's time to savour the landscape in ways that most 'hundred miles an hour' lifestyles won't allow.  Not without irony, 18th and 19th century trade routes are now a powerful source of rest and relaxation for millions from all walks of life.  Pearson's Canal Companions have been guiding people to a greater understanding of the inland waterways network for over forty years.  They are the equivalent of a programme at a concert, theatre production of sporting event: a source of inspiration, interpretation and souvenir all wrapped up within one traditionally sign-written cover.

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Canals turn Tourists into Pilgrims!  At three miles an hour - afoot or afloat - there's time to savour the landscape in ways that most 'hundred miles an hour' lifestyles won't allow.  Not without irony, 18th and 19th century trade routes are now a powerful source of rest and relaxation for millions from all walks of life.  Pearson's Canal Companions have been guiding people to a greater understanding of the inland waterways network for over forty years.  They are the equivalent of a programme at a concert, theatre production of sporting event: a source of inspiration, interpretation and souvenir all wrapped up within one traditionally sign-written cover.

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Canals turn Tourists into Pilgrims!  At three miles an hour - afoot or afloat - there's time to savour the landscape in ways that most 'hundred miles an hour' lifestyles won't allow.  Not without irony, 18th and 19th century trade routes are now a powerful source of rest and relaxation for millions from all walks of life.  Pearson's Canal Companions have been guiding people to a greater understanding of the inland waterways network for over forty years.  They are the equivalent of a programme at a concert, theatre production of sporting event: a source of inspiration, interpretation and souvenir all wrapped up within one traditionally sign-written cover.

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