| Narrow Dog to Carcassonne: Two Foolish People, One Odd Dog, an English Canal Boat...and the Adventure of a Lifetime Contributor(s): Darlington, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 038534208X ISBN-13: 9780385342087 Publisher: Bantam Dell OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a "lunatic scheme" to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France. "From the Hardcover edition." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - Great Britain - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 914.1 |
| LCCN: 2007030295 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.22" W x 8.24" (0.70 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: "We could bore ourselves to death, drink ourselves to death, or have a bit of an adventure..." It was absurd. It was foolhardy. And it was glorious. When they retired, Terry Darlington and his somewhat saner wife Monica--together with their dog, a whippet named Jim--chucked their earthbound life and set out in an utterly unseaworthy sixty-foot canal narrowboat across the notoriously treacherous English Channel and down to the South of France. Aboard the Phyllis May, you'll dive through six-foot waves in the Channel and be swept down the terrible Rh ne. You'll meet the French nobody meets--poets, captains, scholars, madmen; they all want to know the couple on the painted boat and their narrow dog. You'll visit the France nobody knows--the backwaters of Flanders, the canals beneath Paris, and the forbidden routes to the wine-dark Mediterranean Sea. Aliens, trolls, gongoozlers, killer fish, and the walking dead all stand between our two-person, one-whippet crew and their goal: the ancient, many-towered city of Carcassonne. A tale of travel, travail, dubious wine, a balky pump, and a boat built for only a few feet of water, this exuberantly inventive and hugely entertaining odyssey of the spirit, senses, and heart will enchant lovers of France, England, and all that lies between. |
