The Great Days of the Canals
£12.95
This book is out of print. The copies available are second hand, in near-as-new or very good condition. This edition published by Tiger Books International.
The Great Days of the Canals is a large format hardback that weighs 1.2 kg and provides a wealth of history and background about the inland waterways that we value so highly today. Anthony Burton is a well-known authority on industrial history and who has written many books and appeared on radio and TV.
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The canals we travel for pleasure were actually built for work and industry – in The Great Days of the Canals, the author takes you on a nostalgic journey through the past and present and reveals details of the future of Britain’s canals.
Canal building, with special sections dealing with architecture and engineering, the steady development of trade, waterways craft and the early days of pleasure boating and many other topics of interest are enthusiastically portrayed by an author who had been researching and writing about canals for over 20 years before publication.
A good deal of emphasis is placed on people, starting with engineers and navvies, then leading on to the boat people and including the pleasure boaters and the new generation of restorers. Much of the material had never appeared in print before and includes taped interviews with boating families.
The Great Days of the Canals, fully illustrated using historical material and several photographs specially taken for the book, is a book to dip into or read from cover to cover. And it will be enjoyed by all those who have an interest, however fleeting, in Britain’s unique inland waterways.
Author: Anthony Burton
Binding: Hardback
Published: 1995 (this edition). First published 1989
Pages: 224
Size: 280 x 230 mm
ISBN: 1855016958
Publisher’s Price (in 1995): £17.99
