Canal Narrowboats & Barges

An expert introduction to narrowboats, this book also covers wider canal craft and is a guide to the heritage of the working canals. It introduces photographs of boats on the inland waterways today, as well as others that illustrate the techniques of canal boating and chronicle some of the groups who work to preserve craft and use them for education, pleasure and trade. Older photographs show the working boats against the background of industry and the historic canals. There is a section listing a range of contacts, museums and societies, to help the reader search out craft around the waterways.