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    Too Narrow to Swing a Cat: Going Nowhere in Particular on the English Waterways

    By Steve Haywood

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    One man and his cat travel the canals of England Steve Haywood has a new member of crew aboard his narrowboat, Justice—but maybe not the kind he'd have wanted if he'd known the trouble she'd cause. Kit, an untidy bundle of fur with all the attitude you would expect from a "sarf Lunnun" cat, joins Steve as he cruises the waterways on a mission to discover lost parts of England. Casting aside the road maps that show England to be an interlocking web of motorways, Steve gets a different perspective of the modern world as he cruises the canals through a landscape unchanged for centuries, visiting picturesque towns and waterway festivals along the way.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummersdale
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    ISBN9780857652843
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    Too Narrow to Swing a Cat: Going Nowhere in Particular on the English Waterways
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    Steve Haywood

    Steve Haywood is a writer, journalist and filmmaker, and the author of five previous waterways books. He's been a devoted inland waterways narrowboater for fifty years and has written a monthly column for the magazine Canal Boat for more than ten years. He is author of Tales from the Tillerman (Adlard Coles).

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    • 3/5
      Haywood is a well know character in the narrow boat and canal scene, and i picked this up as I am trying to read the entire Summersdale travel book collection.

      This was written over a summer when he decides that he want to spend a summer visiting all the canal and boat festivals going on and catching up with old friends and making new ones. He spends several months on his boat, and this time has company in the form of a black and white cat, as well as regular visits from his long suffering partner Em. He manages to make it to most festivals, though he does try to do it the hardest way possible, by damaging his ankle; not helpful when hobbling around by locks.

      I liked the writing style, it made me chuckle a few times, and whilst he has things that he get annoyed about, it doesn't detract from the book. His passion for all things canal, and the English countryside are evident, and he is right when he says there is still a lot to do to preserve the nice manor houses and the not quite so nice industrial heritage for our future.